Where Church and State are habitually associated, it is natural that minds, even of a high order, should unconsciously come to regard religion as only a subtler mode of police.

Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof.

The true ideal is not opposed to the real but lies in it; and blessed are the eyes that find it.

Old gold has a civilizing virtue which new gold must grow old to be capable of secreting.

The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weathers is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience.

The mind can weave itself warmly in the cocoon of its own thoughts, and dwell a hermit anywhere.

The eye is the notebook of the poet.