Progress has not followed a straight ascending line, but a spiral with rhythms of progress and retrogression, of evolution and dissolution.

Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is.

Faith is like private capital, stored in one's own house. It is like a public savings bank or loan office, from which individuals receive assistance in their days of need; but here the creditor quietly takes his interest for himself.

The best slave is the one who thinks he is free.

If you start to think of your physical and moral condition, you usually find that you are sick.

Religion is not in want of art; it rests on its own majesty.

Music, in the best sense, does not require novelty; nay, the older it is, and the more we are accustomed to it, the greater its effect.