Men have feverishly conceived a heaven only to find it insipid, and a hell to find it ridiculous.

We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past; and we must respect the past, remembering that it was once all that was humanly possible.

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

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

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

The little word is has its tragedies: it marries and identifies different things with the greatest innocence; and yet no two are ever identical, and if therein lies the charm of wedding them and calling them one, therein too lies the danger.

Animals are born and bred in litters. Solitude grows blessed and peaceful only in old age.