The only difference between a caprice and a lifelong passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer.

To play a wrong note is insignificant. To play without passion is inexcusable.

Do not hire a man who does your work for money but him who does it for love of it.

I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived.

Every civilization is, among other things, an arrangement for domesticating the passions and setting them to do useful work.

The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.

Why has government been instituted? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason & justice without constraint.