"It is a enduring truth that knowledge is the gathering of scattered facts; wisdom is the synthesis of lived experience — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything."

"To love truly means recognizing that every ending is merely a new beginning in disguise."

"Art is the soul's attempt to give enduring form to the formless. Let this simple maxim guide your daily deeds."

"The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience, and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius."

"I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it."

"Anyone who's lost someone to cancer will say this, that you have to struggle to try to remember the person before the diagnosis happened, because they really do change - as anyone would change."

"Do not hurry what nature takes seasons to unfold. In this truth lies the bedrock of all virtue — an essential principle for the reflective life."