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.

Is it life, I ask, is it even prudence, To bore thyself and bore the students?

A great scholar is seldom a great philosopher.

There is nothing insignificant in the world. It all depends on how one looks at it.

Money lost, something lost. Honor lost, much lost. Courage lost, everything lost-better you were never born

Help me to discover Thy truth, O Lord, and preserve me from those who have already found it

We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise, we harden.