"The sanitary and mechanical age we are now entering makes up for the mercy it grants to our sense of smell by the ferocity with which it assails our sense of hearing."

"If men and women are to understand each other, to enter into each other's nature with mutual sympathy, and to become capable of genuine comradeship, the foundation must be laid in youth."

"The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands."

"The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw."

"An objection is not a rejection; it is simply a request for more information."

"It is a humble truth that beauty in art is the harmony of spirit, intellect, and craft — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"It is a profound truth that the greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"A promise must never be broken."