A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.

Most people are willing to take the Sermon on the Mount as a flag to sail under, but few will use it as a rudder by which to steer.

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.

Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.

I like children; I like 'em, and I respect 'em. Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by them.