What is more important in life than our bodies or in the world than what we look like?

It is always pleasant to be urged to do something on the ground that one can do it well.

Prayer, among sane people, has never superseded practical efforts to secure the desired end.

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

The human mind is not rich enough to drive many horses abreast and wants one general scheme, under which it strives to bring everything.

Society is like the air, necessary to breathe but insufficient to live on.

Half our standards come from our first masters, and the other half from our first loves.