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

Heaven is to be at peace with things.

In any close society it is more urgent to restrain others than to be free oneself. Hence the tendency for the central authority to absorb and supersede such as are local or delegated.

The only kind of reform usually possible is reform from within; a more intimate study and more intelligent use of the traditional forms.

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

Unmitigated seriousness is always out of place in human affairs.

Religion should be disentangled as much as possible from history and authority and metaphysics, and made to rest honestly on one's fine feelings, on one's indomitable optimism and trust in life.