Higher Quotes

I do not inveigh against higher education, I simply maintain that the sort of education the colored people of the South stand most in need of, is elementary and industrial. They should be instructed for the work to be done.

I consider nothing low but ignorance, vice, and meanness, characteristics generally found where the animal propensities predominate over the higher sentiments.

Any composer who is gloriously conscious that he is a composer must believe that he receives his inspiration from a source higher than himself.

So Europe's a big driver. And at one point, if the euro hadn't devalued, they would have been making as much money as the US with half the stores. Returns were higher.

Nothing is to be rated higher than the value of the day.

Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry.