Theologians have felt no hesitation in founding a system of speculative thought on the teachings of Jesus; and yet Jesus was never an inhabitant of the realm of speculative thought.

The outward freedom that we shall attain will only be in exact proportion to the inward freedom to which we may have grown at a given moment. And if this is a correct view of freedom, our chief energy must be concentrated on achieving reform from within. -Gandhi.

Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.

If it is true that the violin is the most perfect of musical instruments, then Greek is the violin of humn thought.

Education is the ability to meet life's situations.

Are you green and growing or ripe and rotting?.

You see, dear, it is not true that woman was made from man's rib; she was really made from his funny bone.

The greatest weakness of all is the great fear of appearing weak.

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.

Even in a pile of manure, a flower will grow.

The choirs left the main tune and soared two octaves past heaven in a descant to rattle the bones and surge the heart.

For of the most High cometh healing.

Art is harmony. Harmony is the analogy of contrary and of similar elements of tone, of color and of line, conditioned by the dominate key, and under the influence of a particular light, in gay, calm, or sad combinations.

Every extreme attitude is a flight from the self.

A man deep-wounded may feel too much pain To feel much anger.

Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children. -Mignon McLaughlin.

Many without punishment, none without sin.

It needs some intelligence to be truly selfish. The unintelligent can only be self-righteous.

It is better to fall among crows than flatterers; for those devour only the dead -- these the living.

What, is the jay more precious than the lark Because his feathers are more beautiful? Or is the adder better than the eel Because his painted skin contents the eye?