If everyone sweeps before his own front door, then the street is clean.

Don't give us your doubts, gives us your certainties, for we have doubts enough of our own.

If all these devils really exist it proves there must be angels, too.

The dignity of art probably appears most eminently with music since it does not have any material that needs to be discounted. Music is all form and content and elevates and ennobles everything that it expresses.

All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.

We don't get to know people when they come to us; we must go to them to find out what they are like.

Great thoughts and a pure heart, that is what we should ask from God.