Schools should be the most beautiful place in every town and village-so beautiful that the punishment for undutiful children should be barred from going to school the following day.

There is no such thing as morality or immorality in thought. There is immoral emotion.

All art is immortal. For emotion for the sake of emotion is the aim of art, and emotion for the sake of action is the aim of life.

The only horrible thing in the world is ennui.

Music is the art... which most completely realizes the artistic idea and is the condition to which all the other arts are constantly aspiring.

Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.

Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary.