Music is essentially useless, as life is; but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions.

The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.

It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz bands.

Our occasional madness is less wonderful than our occasional sanity.

Time is like an enterprising manager always bent on staging some new and surprising production, without knowing very well what it will be.

I have imagination, and nothing that is real is alien to me.

It is wisdom to believe the heart.