One of the few lives precious to mankind. ~ Thomas Jefferson

When I was young there was no respect for the young, and now that I am old there is no respect for the old. I missed out coming and going.

What I have known with respect to myself, has tended much to lessen both my admiration, and my contempt, of others.

We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in color and fire, but of course they would have to fit into the pattern of our societ…

A world that has produced a Mozart is a world worth saving. What a picture of a better world you have given us, Mozart! ~ Franz Schubert

In its solitariness the spirit asks, What, in the way of value, is the attainment of life? And it can find no such value till it has merged its individual clai…

'Time lost is time when we have not lived a full human life, time unenriched by experience, creative endeavor, enjoyment, and suffering.'