Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to human welfare.

If they are sufficiently complete to live, they do live, and it is well they should live. If they are not sufficiently complete to live, they die, and it is best they should die.

The belief, not only of the socialist but of those so-called liberals who are diligently preparing the way for them is that by due skill an ill working humanity may be framed into well-working initiations. It is delusion. The defective natures of citizens will show themselves in bad acting of whatever social structure they are arranged into. There is no political alchemy by which you can get golden conduct out of laden instincts.

The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.

All socialism involves slavery.

The question of questions for the politicians should ever be-What type of social structure am I tending to produce? But this is a question he never entertains.

The society exists for the benefit of its members; not its members for the benefit of the society.