The immense value of becoming acquainted with a foreign language is that we are thereby led into a new world of tradition and thought and feeling.

Dancing as an art, we may be sure, cannot die out, but will always be undergoing a rebirth. Not merely as an art, but also as a social custom, it perpetually emerges afresh from the soul of the people.

When love is suppressed hate takes its place.

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.

All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.

Einstein is notmerely an artist in his moments of leisure and play, as a great statesman may play golf or a great soldier grow orchids. He retains the same attitude in the whole of his work. He traces science to its roots in emotion, which is exactly where art is also rooted.

The greatest task before civilization at present is to make machines what they ought to be, the slaves, instead of the masters of men.