There is nothing so stupid as an educated man, if you get him off the thing he was educated in.

If we have not quiet in our minds, outward comfort will do no more for us than a golden slipper on a gouty foot.

A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past he is one who is prematurely disappointed in the future.

The dust of controversy is merely the falsehood flying off.

Tell everyone what you want to do and someone will want to help you do it.

Conductors must give unmistakable and suggestive signals to the orchestra, not choreography to the audience.

Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.

God does not ask about our ability, but our availability.

No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.

There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.