Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.

All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness.

Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little reform needed in our prisons.

The more readily we admit the possibility of our own cherished convictions being mixed with error, the more vital and helpful whatever is right in them will become; and no error is so conclusively fatal as the idea that God will not allow us to err, though He has allowed all other men to do so.

The beginning and almost the end of all good law is that everyone shall work for their bread and receive good bread for their work.

Science has to do with facts, art with phenomena. To science, phenomena are of use only as they lead to facts; and to art, facts are of use only as they lead to phenomena.

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.