Pain is the most individualized thing on earth. It is true that it is the great common bond as well, but that realization only comes when it is over. To suffer is to be alone. To watch another suffer is to know the barrier that shuts each of us away by himself Only individuals can suffer.

The Greek temple is the creation, par excellence, of mind and spirit in equilibrium.

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

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

In theology the conservative temper tends to formalism.

Great art is the expression of a solution of the conflict between the demands of the world without and that within.

Moderately wise each one should be, Not overwise, for a wise man's heart Is seldom glad (Norse Wisdom)