Let the splendor of diamond, pearl and ruby vanish? Only let this one teardrop, this Taj Mahal, glisten spotlessly bright on the cheek of time, forever and ever.

If you allow your mind to carp at all and sundry, it will turn against itself: the majority of our sorrows are self-inflicted.

While God waits for His temple to be built of love, men bring stones.

Leave out my name from the gift if it be a burden, but keep my song.

Music is the purest form of art, and therefore the most direct expression of beauty, with a form and spirit which is one and simple, and least encumbered with anything extraneous. We seem to feel that the manifestation of the infinite in the finite forms of creation is music itself, silent and visible.

No civilized society can thrive upon victims, whose humanity has been permanently mutilated.

Let the dead have the immortality of fame, but the living the immortality of love.