You will find the most pronounced hatred of other nations on the lowest cultural levels. There is, though, a level where the hatred disappears completely and where one so to speak stands above the nations and where one experiences fortune or misfortune of a neighboring country as if they had happened to one's own.

The arts are the salt of the earth; as salt relates to food, the arts relate to technology.

The old lose one of the greatest privileges of man, for they are no longer judged by their contemporaries.

To make converts is the natural ambition of everyone.

Music is so elevated that it is beyond the reach of intellect and there flows from it an influence which is all-potent, and which noone can explain.

Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them.

Children can scarcely be fashioned to meet with our likes and our purpose. Just as God did us give them, so must we hold them and love them, nurture and teach them to fullness and leave them to be what they are.