Music is a means of giving form to our inner feelings, without attaching them to events or objects in the world.

Is it indeed from the experience of beauty and happiness, from the occasional harmony between our nature and our environment, that we draw our conception of the divine life.

Religion is the natural reaction of the imagination when confronted by the difficulties in a truculent world.

What better comfort have we, or what other Profit in living Than to feed, sobered by the truth of Nature, Awhile upon her beauty, And hand her torch of gladness to the ages Following after?

I have imagination, and nothing that is real is alien to me.

A country without a memory is a country of madmen.

Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny.