The Bible is literature, not dogma.

love make us poets, and the approach of death should make us philosophers.

We crave support in vanity, as we do in religion, and never forgive contradictions in that sphere.

To keep beauty in its place is to make all things beautiful.

If clearness about things produces a fundamental despair, a fundamental despair in turn produces a remarkable clearness or even playfulness about ordinary matters.

People who feel themselves to be exiles in this world are mightily inclined to believe themselves citizens of another.

The earth has music for those who listen.