Price is a crazy and incalculable thing, while Value is an intrinsic and indestructible thing.

According to most philosophers, God in making the world enslaved it. According to Christianity, in making it, He set it free. God had written, not so much a poem, but rather a play; a play he had planned as perfect, but which had necessarily been left to human actors and stage-managers, who had since made a great mess of it.

A man cannot have the energy to produce good art without having the energy to wish to pass beyond it.

Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny is but the phantom we invoke to silence the one and dethrone the other.

Is ditchwater dull? Naturalists with microscopes have told me that it teems with quiet fun.

We need to be reminded more than we need to be instructed

Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils; by making men afraid of war or alcohol, or economic law, when they should be afraid of spiritual corruption and cowardice.