Man is a fighting animal; his thoughts are his banners, and it is a failure of nerve in him if they are only thoughts.

Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.

The spirit's foe in man has not been simplicity, but sophistication.

The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal.

Experience has repeatedly confirmed that well-known maxim of Bacon's that 'a little philosophy inclineth a man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.' At the same time, when Bacon penned that sage epigram... he forgot to add that the God to whom depth in philosophy brings back men's minds is far from being the same from whom a little philosophy estranges them.

Before he sets out, the traveler must possess fixed interests and facilities to be served by travel.

Facts are all accidents. They all might have been different. They all may become different. They all may collapse altogether.