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

Science is, in the best and strictest sense, glorious entertainment

The world has long observed that small acts of immorality, if repeated, will destroy character. It is equally manifest, though never said, that uttering nonsense and half-truth without cease ends by destroying Intellect

In any assembly the simplest way to stop transacting business and split the ranks is to appeal to a principle.

The ascetic is often a sensualist who has reached the limit of his capacity.

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 one thing that unifies men in a given age is not their individual philosophies but the dominant problem that these philosophies are designed to solve.