There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. The dark background which death supplies brings out the tender colours of life in all their purity.

Real unselfishness consists in sharing the interests of others.

When a man's life is over, it remains true that he was one sort of man and not another. A man who understands himself under the form of eternity knows the quality that eternally belongs to him, and knows that he cannot wholly die, even if he would, for when the movement of his life is over, the truth of his life remains.

To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.

Nothing can be lower or more wholly instrumental than the substance and cause of all things.

Philosophy may describe unreasoning, as it may describe force; it cannot hope to refute them.

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.