The earth has music for those who listen.

To drink in the spirit of a place you should be not only alone but unhurried.

Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character.

The mass of mankind is divided into two classes, the Sancho Panza's who have a sense for reality, but no ideals, and the Don Quixote's with a sense for ideals, but mad.

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

The idea of Christ is much older than Christianity.

Man alone knows that he must die; but that very knowledge raises him, in a sense, above mortality, by making him a sharer in the vision of eternal truth. He becomes the spectator of his own tragedy; he sympathizes so much with the fury of the storm that he has no ears left for the shipwrecked sailor, though the sailor were his own soul. The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it.