The effects of good music are not just because it's new; on the contrary music strikes us more the more familiar we are with it.

Aptitudes are assumed, they should become accomplishments. That is the purpose of all education.

We learn to treasure what is above this earth; we long for revelation, which nowhere burns more purely and more beautifully than in the New Testament.

All beginnings are delightful; the threshold is the place to pause.

The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.

The greatest genius will not be worth much if he pretends to draw exclusively from his own resources

The nude is the perfect expression of freedom. Freedom to be.