Music and religion are as intimately related as poetry and love; the deepest emotions require for their civilized expression the most emotional of arts.

The victors called the revolution a triumph of liberty; but now and then liberty in the slogans of the strong means freedom from restraint in the exploitation of the weak.

I feel for all faiths the warm sympathy of one who has come to learn that even the trust in reason is a precarious faith, and that we are all fragments of darkness groping for the sun. I know no more about the ultimates than the simplest urchin in the streets.

Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard

I came to think of myself, not as a dance and chaos of molecules, but as a brief and minute portion of that majestic process

Nothing is new except arrangement.

How much more suffering is caused by the thought of death than by death itself.