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.

One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.

When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons are always different.

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

Nonsense is so good only because common sense is so limited.

A grateful environment is a substitute for happiness. It can quicken us from without as a fixed hope and affection, or as the consciousness of a right life, can quicken us from within.

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