There is nothing to which men, while they have food and drink, cannot reconcile themselves.

To attempt to be religious without practicing a specific religion is as possible as attempting to speak without a specific language.

A soul is but the last bubble of a long fermentation in the world.

You and I possess manifold ideal bonds in the interests we share; but each of us has his poor body and his irremediable, incommunicable dreams.

A musical education is necessary for musical judgement. What most people relish is hardly music; it is rather a drowsy reverie relieved by nervous thrills.

Art is the response to the demand for entertainment, for the stimulation of our senses and imagination, and truth enters into it only as it subserves these ends.

Proofs are the last thing looked for by a truly religious mind which feels the imaginary fitness of its faith.