Facts as facts do not always create a spirit of reality, because reality is a spirit.

No man can break any of the Ten Commandments. He can only break himself against them.

He is a [sane] man who can have tragedy in his heart and comedy in his head.

As regards moral courage, then, it is not so much that the public schools support it feebly, as that they suppress it firmly.

Playing as children means playing is the most serious thing in the world.

The Byzantines hammered away at their hard and orthodox symbols, because they could not be in a mood to believe that men could take a hint. The moderns drag out into lengths and reels of extravagance their new orthodoxy of being unorthodox, because they also cannot give a hint -- or take a hint. Yet all perfect and well-poised art is really a hint.

Monotony has nothing to do with a place; monotony, either in its sensation or its infliction, is simply the quality of a person. There are no dreary sights; there are only dreary sight seers.