A museum is not a first-hand contact: it is an illustrated lecture. And what one wants is the actual vital touch.

For us to go to Italy and to penetrate into Italy is like a most fascinating act of self-discovery

When each thing is unique in itself, there can be no comparison made.... There is only this strange recognition of present otherness.

A man has no religion who has not slowly and painfully gathered one together, adding to it, shaping it; and one's religion is never complete and final, it seems, but must always be undergoing modification.

The words themselves are clean, so are the things to which they apply. But the mind drags in a filthy association, calls up some repulsive emotion. Well, then, cleanse the mind, that is the real job. It is the mind which is the Augean stables, not language.

Where the electron behaves and misbehaves as it will, where the forces tie themselves up into knots of atoms and come united.

The proper study of mankind is man in his relation to his deity.