And you receivers - and you are all receivers - assume no weight of gratitude, lest you lay a yoke upon yourself and upon him who gives. Rather rise together with the giver on his gifts as on wings; For to be overmindful of your debt, is to doubt his generosity who has the free hearted earth for mother, and God for father.

The veil that clouds your eyes shall be lifted by the hands that wove it.

That deed which in our guilt we today call weakness, will appear tomorrow as an essential link in the complete chain of Man.

When God created Man, he gave him Music as a language different from all other languages. And early man sang his glory in the wilderness; and drew the hearts of kings and moved them from their thrones.

Remembrance is a form of meeting.

you can muffle the drum, and you can loosen the strings of the lyre, but who shall command the skylark not to sing?

The fool sees naught but folly; and the madman only madness. Yesterday I asked a foolish man to count the fools among us. He laughed and said, "This is too hard a thing to do, and it will take too long. Were it not better to count only the wise?"