Art is the spirit of progress and one of the most important means of developing emotions. Those who cannot make use of this means are unfortunate indeed, and live a numbed, diminished life. Art is like a magical key that opens hidden treasures. Behind the doors it opens are ideas embodied and imaginings given substantial [...]

Every noble cause and truth will gain constancy and a universal identity by its adherents’ determination to protect it and their devotion to it. If those who have embraced that cause and truth are not perceptive, faithful, and persevering, that which they have embraced eventually will be erased from human memory by the hostility of [...]