To realize life in the abstract as noble or beautiful or humane, to set it forth so with radiance upon it, that is civilization in the arts. Shakespeare is the chief modern example of this supreme faculty of mankind.

To feel that one has a place in life solves half the problem of contentment.

The willingness to take risks is our grasp of faith.

Agitation is that part of our intellectual life where vitality results; there ideas are born, breed and bring forth.

Shakespeare has been praised in English more than anything mortal except poetry itself. Fame exhausts thought in his eulogy.

Aesthetic freedom is like free speech; it is, indeed, a form of free speech.

I believe that ideal character in its perfection is potentially in every man who is born into the world.