The symbol is greater than visible substance. . . . Unhappy the land that has no symbols, or that chooses their meaning without great care.

It is not badness, it is the absence of goodness, which, in Art as in Life, is so depressing.

The symbol is greater than visible substance. . . . Unhappy the land that has no symbols, or that chooses their meaning without great care.

This is excellence - the following of anything for its own sake and with its own integrity.

every word calls up far more of a picture than its actual meaning is supposed to do, and the writer has to deal with all these silent associations as well as with the uttered significance.

... I want to be one of those people who are always to be found at home, nice restful people whom everybody likes because they give a feeling of permanence to this rushing world.

All the feeling which my father could not put into words was in his hand-any dog, child or horse would recognize the kindness of it.