To feel beauty is a better thing than to understand how we come to feel it. To have imagination and taste, to love the best, to be carried by the contemplation of nature to a vivid faith in the ideal, all this is more, a great deal more, than any science can hope to be.

It is rash to intrude upon the piety of others: both the depth and the grace of it elude the stranger.

Emotion is primarily about nothing and much of it remains about nothing to the end.

A buoyant and full-blooded soul has quick senses and miscellaneous sympathies: it changes with the changing world; and when not too much starved or thwarted by circumstances, it finds all things vivid and comic. Life is free play fundamentally and would like to be free play altogether.

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 God to whom depth in philosophy bring back men's minds is far from being the same from whom a little philosophy estranges them

Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace.