Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance

Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance.

There is one principle that can keep a man in everlasting ignorance. That is contempt prior to investigation.

I warn you that ignorance thrives on hysteria.

Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to the human spirit.

When a man's knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion.