Well-meaning, helpful, good-natured attitudes of mind have not come to be honored on account of their usefulness, but because they are states of richer souls that are capable of bestowing and have their value in the feeling of the plenitude of life.

Loving and perishing: it's been a rhyme all these eternities. The will to love: that is, also being willing to die.

And if a friend does you wrong, then say: "I forgive you what you have done to me; that you have done it to YOURSELF, however--how could I forgive that!

In architecture the pride of man, his triumph over gravitation, his will to power, assume a visible form. Architecture is a sort of oratory of power by means of forms.

The most fatal seductive lie that has yet existed

He who attains his ideal, precisely thereby surpasses it.

They would have to sing better songs for me to learn to have faith in their Redeemer; and his disciples would have to look more redeemed!