The idea of Christ is much older than Christianity.

The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity.

Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape; a spirit with any honor is not willing to live except in its own way, and a spirit with any wisdom is not over-eager to live at all.

One real world is enough.

It is a new road to happiness, if you have strength enough to castigate a little the various impulses that sway you in turn.

Towers in a modern town are a frill and a survival; they seem like the raised hands of the various churches, afraid of being overlooked, and saying to the forgetful public, Here I am! Or perhaps they are rival lightning rods, saying to the emanations of divine grace, "Please strike here!

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.