Music ministers to human welfare more than any other art.

It must be admitted that the conception of virtue cannot be separated from the conception of happiness-producing conduct.

Agnostics are people who, like myself, confess themselves to be hopelessly ignorant concerning a variety of matters, about which metaphysicians and theologians, both orthodox and heterodox, dogmatize with the utmost confidence.

We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one.

Religion is the recognition that all things are manifestations of a Power which transcends our knowledge.

In the supremacy of self-control consists one of the perfections of the ideal man.

Those whose hardships are set forth in pamphlets and proclaimed in sermons and speeches which echo throughout society, are assumed to be all worthy souls, grievously wronged; and none of them are thought of as bearing the penalties of their misdeeds.