The Bible is literature, not dogma.

Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself.

The man who would emancipate art from discipline and reason is trying to elude rationality, not merely in art, but in all existence.

It would hardly be possible to exaggerate man's wretchedness if it were not so easy to overestimate his sensibility

Truth is one of the realities covered in the eclectic religion of our fathers by the idea of God. Awe very properly hangs about it, since it is the immovable standard and silent witness of all our memories and assertions; and the past and the future, which in our anxious life are so differently interesting and so differently dark, are one seamless garment for the truth, shining like the sun.

Life is judged with all the blindness of life itself.

The best men in all ages keep classic traditions alive