To feel beauty is a better thing than to understand how we come to feel it. To have imagination and taste, to love the best, to be carried by the contemplation of nature to a vivid faith in the ideal, all this is more, a great deal more, than any science can hope to be.

To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman.

Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.

Music is essentially useless, as is life.

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

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.

We are not compelled in naturalism, or even in materialism, to ignore immaterial things; the point is that any immaterial things which are recognized shall be regarded as names, aspects, functions, or concomitant products of those physical things among which action goes on.