Self-expression must pass into communication for its fulfillment.

music is not technique and melody, but the meaning of life itself, infinitely sorrowful and unbearably beautiful.

We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.

The truth has never been told about women in history: that everywhere man has gone woman has gone too, and what he has done she has done also. Women are ignorant of their own past and ignorant of their own importance in that past.

We learn as much from sorrow as from joy, as much from illness as from health, from handicap as from advantage and indeed perhaps more.

Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.

men cannot be free in a nation where women are forbidden freedom.