In all things that live there are certain irregularities, and deficiencies which are not only signs of life, but sources of beauty. No human face is exactly the same in its lines on each side, no leaf perfect in its lobes, no branch in its symmetry.

Curiosity is a gift, a capacity of pleasure in knowing, which if you destroy, you make yourself cold and dull.

All great song, from the first day when human lips contrived syllables, has been sincere song.

There is no music in a “rest” that I know of, but there's the making of music in it. And people are always missing that part of the life melody.

What we think or what we know or what we believe is in the end of little consequence. The only thing of consequence is what we do

The higher a man stands, the more the word vulgar becomes unintelligible to him.

Morality does not depend on religion.