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

... it is a matter of civilizing everyone or not being civilized at all: the decay has always come from a partial civilization.

... freshness trembles beneath the surface of Everyday, a joy perpetual to all who catch its opal lights beneath the dust of habit.

youth looks at its world and age looks through it; youth must get busy on problems whose outlines stand single and strenuous before it, while age can, with luck, achieve a cosmic private harmony unsuited for action as a rule.

To think to keep things as they are, is to let them move unpredictably, since nothing but death will still the beat of the heart or keep the universe from its perpetual motion.

All our acts have sacramental possibilities.

Curiosity is the one thing invincible in Nature.