There is a field where all wonderful perfections of microscope and telescope fail, all exquisite niceties of weights and measures, as well as that which is behind them, the keen and driving power of the mind. No facts however indubitably detected, no effort of reason however magnificently maintained, can prove that Bach's music is beautiful.

A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day show the quality of the people as no historical reconstruction can.

All things are at odds when God sets a thinker loose on the planet

Christ must be rediscovered perpetually.

There is no dignity like the dignity of a soul in agony.

though the outside of human life changes much, the inside changes little, and the lesson-book we cannot graduate from is human experience.

None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry.