Music is either sacred or secular. The sacred agrees with its dignity, and here has its greatest effect on life, an effect that remains the same through all ages and epochs. Secular music should be cheerful throughout.

A man is really alive only when he delights in the good-will of others.

Just as, out of habit, one consults a run-down clock as though it were still going, so too one may look at the face of a beautiful woman as though he still loved her.

The greatest joy of a thinking man is to have searched the explored and to quietly revere the unexplored.

How circumscribed is woman's destiny!

Because everyone uses language to talk, everyone thinks he can talk about language.

It would not be worth your while to reach the age of seventy if all the wisdom of the world were to be foolishness before God.