It is rash to intrude upon the piety of others: both the depth and the grace of it elude the stranger.

The wisest mind has something yet to learn.

Poetry is an attenuation, a rehandling, an echo of crude experience; it is itself a theoretic vision of things at arm's length.

A simple life is its own reward.

Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about his taste, nor condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.

Music contains a whole gamut of experience, from sensuous elements to ultimate intellectual harmonies.

It is wisdom to believe the heart.