I never give answers. I lead on from one question to another. That is my leadership.

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.

God finds himself by creating.

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

Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high Where knowledge is free.

Where the mind is led forward by thee into ever-widening thought and action-Into that heaven of freedom, my father, let my country awake.

Truth reveals itself in beauty.