To fight is a radical instinct; if men have nothing else to fight over they will fight over words, fancies, or women, or they will fight because they dislike each other's looks, or because they have met walking in opposite directions.

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

Experience is a mere whiff or rumble, produced by enormously complex and ill-deciphered causes of experience; and in the other direction, experience is a mere peephole through which glimpses come down to us of eternal things.

Intolerance is a form of egotism, and to condemn egotism intolerantly is to share it.

The muffled syllables that Nature speaks Fill us with deeper longing for her word; She hides a meaning that the spirit seeks, She makes a sweeter music than is heard.

The loneliest woman in the world is a woman without a close woman friend.

To be bewitched is not to be saved, though all the magicians and aesthetes in the world should pronounce it to be so.