When you pay too much, you lose a little money - that is all. When you pay too little, you sometimes lose everything, because the thing you bought is incapable of doing the thing it was bought to do.

Beethoven always sounds to me like the upsetting of a bag of nails, with here and there an also dropped hammer.

There are many religions, but there is only one morality.

Man's only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever.

Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.

Every great man is always being helped by everybody, for his gift is to get good out of all things and all persons.

No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change.