... so in love the heart surrenders itself entirely to the one being that has known how to touch it. That being is not selected; it is recognised and obeyed.

To substitute judgments of fact for judgments of value is a sign of pedantic and borrowed criticism.

The vital straining towards an ideal, definite but latent, when it dominates a whole life, may express that ideal more fully than could the best chosen words.

Religion is the natural reaction of the imagination when confronted by the difficulties in a truculent world.

Happiness is impossible, and even inconceivable, to a mind without scope and without pause, a mind driven by craving, pleasure, or fear. To be happy, you must be reasonable, or you must be tamed. You must have taken the measure of your powers, tasted the fruits of your passion, and learned your place in the world and what things in it can really serve you. To be happy, you must be wise.

Music is a means of giving form to our inner feelings, without attaching them to events or objects in the world.

Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality.