Emotion is primarily about nothing and much of it remains about nothing to the end.

Philosophy is a more intense sort of experience than common life is, just as pure and subtle music, heard in retirement, is something keener and more intense than the howling of storms or the rumble of cities.

Man is a fighting animal; his thoughts are his banners, and it is a failure of nerve in him if they are only thoughts.

A dream is always simmering below the conventional surface of speech and reflection.

Children are natural mythologists: they beg to be told tales, and love not only to invent but to enact falsehoods.

Old places and old persons in their turn, when spirit dwells in them, have an intrinsic vitality of which youth is incapable, precisely, the balance and wisdom that come from long perspectives and broad foundations

Music is a means of giving form to our inner feelings, without attaching them to events or objects in the world.