Music is the tonal analogue of emotive life.

The power of magic has no known limits. A person knows, in a fair way, his own physical capacities, the weight of the blows he can deal, the furthest range of his arrows, the strength of his voice, the speed and endurance of his running; but the reaches of his mind are indefinite and, to his feeling, infinite.

Feeling, in the broad sense of whatever is felt in any way, as sensory stimulus or inward tension, pain, emotion or intent, is the mark of mentality.

It is significant that people who refuse to tell their children fairytales do not fear that the children will believe in princes and princesses, but that they will believe in witches and bogeys.

value exists only where there is consciousness. Where nothing ever is felt, nothing matters.

What is artistically good is whatever articulates and presents feeling to our understanding.

Ritual is the most primitive reflection of serious thought, a slow deposit, as it were, of people's imaginative insight into life.