Of course, clothing fashions have always been impractical, except in Tahiti.

Idealism springs from deep feelings, but feelings are nothing without the formulated idea that keeps them whole.

To delve into history entails, besides the grievance of hard work, the danger that in the depths one may lose one’s scapegoats.

The professionals resemble and recognize each other by virtue of the stigmata that their trade has left upon them. They are like the dog in the fable, whose collar has made an indelible mark around his neck. The amateur is the shaggy wolf whom no dog had better trust too far.

Music is intended and designed for sentient beings that have hopes and purposes and emotions.

If it were possible to talk to the unborn, one could never explain to them how it feels to be alive, for life is washed in the speechless real.

The truth is, when all is said and done, one does not teach a subject, one teaches a student how to learn it.