A people's literature is the great text-book for real knowledge of them.

When we speak of beauty, we're speaking of something we're more or less indifferent to.

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

Christ must be rediscovered perpetually.

To rejoice in life, to find the world beautiful and delightful to live in, was a mark of the Greek spirit which distinguished it from all that had gone before. It is a vital distinction.

Ages of faith and of unbelief are always said to mark the course of history.

Civilization...is a matter of imponderables, of delight in the thins of the mind, of love of beauty, of honor, grace, courtesy, delicate feeling. Where imponderables, are things of first importance, there is the height of civilization, and, if at the same time, the power of art exists unimpaired, human life has reached a level seldom attained and very seldom surpassed.