Life is a predicament which precedes death.

do you think it is better to be clever than to be good?” “Good for what?” asked the Doctor. “You are good for nothing unless you are clever.

The artist beholds in nature more than she herself Nature is conscious of.

She had always been fond of history, and here [in Rome] was history in the stones of the street and the atoms of the sunshine.

To take what there is in life and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived, to dig deep into the actual and get something out of that; this, doubtless, is the right way to live.

Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.

God's creature is one. He makes man, not men. His true creature is unitary and infinite, revealing himself, indeed, in every finite form, but compromised by none.