The division between the useful arts and the fine arts must not be understood in too absolute a manner. In the humblest work of the craftsmen, if art is there, there is a concern for beauty, through a kind of indirect repercussion that the requirements of the creativity of the spirit exercise upon the production of an object to serve human needs.

The sole philosophy open to those who doubt the possibility of truth is absolute silence -- even mental.

Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.

The great and admirable strength of America consists in this, that America is truly the American people.

The spiritual experience of the philosopher is the nourishing soil of philosophy; that without it there is no philosophy; and that, even so, spiritual experience does not, or must not, enter into the intelligible texture of philosophy. The pulp of the fruit must consist of nothing but the truth.

God's love causes the beauty of what He loves, our love is caused by the beauty of what we love.

Poetry proceeds from the totality of man, sense, imagination, intellect, love, desire, instinct, blood and spirit together.