Poetry and art and knowledge are sacred and pure.

Say "I love you" to those you love. The eternal silence is long enough to be silent in, and that awaits us all.

I protest against any absolute conclusion.

The most powerful movement of feeling with a liturgy is the prayer which seeks for nothing special, but is a yearning to escape from the limitations of our own weakness and an invocation of all Good to enter and abide with us.

Plainness has its peculiar temptations and vices quite as much as beauty.

... it is one of the gains of advancing age that the good of young creatures becomes a more definite intense joy to us. With that renunciation for ourselves which age inevitably brings, we get more freedom of soul to enter into the life of others; what we can never learn they will know, and the gladness which is a departed sunlight to us is rising with the strength of morning to them.

There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.