The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it.

In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.

Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.

Do not think of your faults, still less of other's faults look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes.

Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.