All good government must begin at home. It is useless to make good laws for bad people; what is wanted is this, to subdue the tyranny of the human heart.

The religious instinct will never be replaced by law or even philanthropy.

Feeling comes before reflection.

Morality will be very difficult for the man who does not pray.

The time is probably not far distant when music will stand revealed perchance as the mightiest of the arts, and certainly as the one art peculiarly representative of our modern world, with its intense life, complex civilization, and feverish self-consciousness.

To be selfish is to sacrifice the nobler for the meaner ends, and to be sordidly content.

No soul is bad enough for a fixed "hell," or good enough for a fixed "heaven," however useful the words may be as pointing to opposite states.