The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim's sympathies

The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim's sympathies.

It's easier to build publicity around a chief artistic personality than it is around a body of musicians. It's my own inclination to think that having a music director is an advantage. It's somebody for the community to rally around.

The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence enough to upset Darwin

Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.