Classic literature is still something that hangs in the air like a song.

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

The fact is that purification and austerity are even more necessary for the appreciation of life and laughter than for anything else. To let no bird fly past unnoticed, to spell the stones and weeds, to have the mind a storehouse of sunset, requires a discipline in pleasure and an education in gratitude.

All we know of the Missing Link is that he is missing - and he won't be missed either.

Every true artist feels that he is touching transcendental truths; that his images are shadows of things seen through the veil.

The more we are proud that the Bethlehem story is plain enough to be understood by the shepherds, and almost by the sheep, the more do we let ourselves go, in dark and gorgeous imaginative frescoes or pageants about the mystery and majesty of the Three Magian Kings.

If the devil tells you something is too fearful to look at, look at it. If he says something is too terrible to hear, hear it. If you think some truth unbearable, bear it.