Between two groups of men that want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds I see no remedy except force… It seems to me that every society rests on the death of men.

I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.

Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall.

It is the province of knowledge to speak and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.

Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body.

A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.