Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body.

Male and female represent the two sides of the great radical dualism. But in fact they are perpetually passing into one another. Fluid hardens to solid, solid rushes to fluid. There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman.

—Oliver Wendell Holmes

It is the province of knowledge to speak and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.

—Oliver Wendell Holmes

Life is difficult and complicated and beyond anyone's total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.

—Oliver Wendell Holmes

If you have knowledge, let others light their candles at it.

—Oliver Wendell Holmes

Civilization is the process of reducing the infinite to the finite.

—Oliver Wendell Holmes

My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.

—Martin Luther

Music is a discipline, and a mistress of order and good manners, she makes the people milder and gentler, more moral and more reasonable.

—Martin Luther

Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.

—Kin Hubbard

Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.

—John Erskine

I hate music, especially when it's played.

—Jimmy Durante