Melody and harmony are like lines and colors in pictures. A simple linear picture may be completely beautiful; the introduction of color may make it vague and insignificant. Yet color may, by combination with lines, create great pictures, so long as it does not smother and destroy their value.

Thou hast made me endless, such is thy pleasure. This frail vessel thou emptiest again and again, and fillest it ever with fresh life.

Plunge into the deep without fear, with the gladness of April in your heart.

God, the Great Giver, can open the whole universe to our gaze in the narrow space of a single land.

The main object of teaching is not to give explanations, but to knock at the doors of the mind.

Discipline divorced from wisdom is not true discipline, but merely the meaningless following of custom, which is only a disguise for stupidity.

Mistakes live in the neighbourhood of truth and therefore delude us.