A simple life is its own reward.

Music contains a whole gamut of experience, from sensuous elements to ultimate intellectual harmonies.

Christianity persecuted, tortured, and burned. Like a hound it tracked the very scent of heresy. It kindled wars, and nursed furious hatreds and ambitions... Man, far from being freed from his natural passions, was plunged into artificial ones quite as violent and much more disappointing.

The more rational an institution is the less it suffers by making concessions to others.

To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired.

The love of all-inclusiveness is as dangerous in philosophy as in art.

To be an American is of itself almost a moral condition, an education, and a career.