Education, whatever else it should or should not be, must be an inoculation against the poisons of life and an adequate equipment in knowledge and skill for meeting the chances of life.

'Charm' - which means the power to effect work without employing brute force - is indispensable to women. Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm.

In the early days of Christianity the exercise of chastity was frequently combined with a close and romantic intimacy of affection between the sexes which shocked austere moralists.

Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.

Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.

The romantic embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.

Man lives by imagination.

The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.

I always seem to have a vague feeling that he is a Satan among musicians, a fallen angel in the darkness who is perpetually seeking to fight his way back to happiness.

To be a leader of men one must turn one's back on men.

All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.

Every artist writes his own autobiography.

Pain and death are part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself.

Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry.

Dreams are real as long as they last. Can we say more of life?

However well organized the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks.

What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.

There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.

The family only represents one aspect, however important an aspect, of a human being's functions and activities. A life is beautiful and ideal or the reverse, only when we have taken into our consideration the social as well as the family relationship.