Sometimes we have to change the truth in order to remember it.

My soul hates the fool whose only passion is to live by rule.

The arts must study their occasions; they must stand modestly aside until they can slip in fitly into the interstices of life.

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

Philosophy may describe unreasoning, as it may describe force; it cannot hope to refute them.

Nothing is inherently and invincibly young except spirit. And spirit can enter a human being perhaps better in the quiet of old age and dwell there more undisturbed than in the turmoil of adventure.

Religions are the great fairy tales of conscience.