... so in love the heart surrenders itself entirely to the one being that has known how to touch it. That being is not selected; it is recognised and obeyed.

Man is not made to understand life, but to live it.

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

Towers in a modern town are a frill and a survival; they seem like the raised hands of the various churches, afraid of being overlooked, and saying to the forgetful public, Here I am! Or perhaps they are rival lightning rods, saying to the emanations of divine grace, "Please strike here!

Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts.

Tolerated people are never conciliated. They live on, but the aroma of their life is lost.

Man has an inexhuastible faculty for lying, especially to himself.