you seem to grieve for what is not so ... and there is no need to let your heart run ahead into evils that may never come.

I don't wait for moods - you'd never get anything done if you did.

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 test of a civilization is in the way that it cares for its helpless members

It is natural anywhere that people like their own kind, but it is not necessarily natural that their fondness for their own kind should lead them to the subjection of whole groups of other people not like them.

Because psychologists have been able to discover, exactly as in a slow-motion picture, the way the human creature acquires knowledge and habits, the normal child has been vastly helped by what the retarded have taught us.