Education, whatever else it should or should not be, must be an inoculation against the poisons of life and an adequate equipment in knowledge and skill for meeting the chances of life.

The romantic embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.

In philosophy, it is not the attainment of the goal that matters, it is the things that are met with by the way

I always seem to have a vague feeling that he is a Satan among musicians, a fallen angel in the darkness who is perpetually seeking to fight his way back to happiness.

It is the little writer rather than the great writer who seems never to quote, and the reason is that he is never really doing anything else.

We cannot remain consistent with the world save by growing inconsistent with our past selves.

The sanitary and mechanical age we are now entering makes up for the mercy it grants to our sense of smell by the ferocity with which it assails our sense of hearing.