An ideal cannot wait for its realization to prove its validity.
If pain could have cured us we should long ago have been saved.
The loftiest edifices need the deepest foundations.
The mass of mankind is divided into two classes, the Sancho Panza's who have a sense for reality, but no ideals, and the Don Quixote's with a sense for ideals, but mad.
The Bible is a wonderful source of inspiration for those who don't understand it.
Music contains a whole gamut of experience, from sensuous elements to ultimate intellectual harmonies.