Isn't it wonderful that two of the most sacred and symbolic plants, the olive and the vine, live on almost nothing, a terrace of limestone, sun and rain.

There ought to be so many who are excellent, there are so few.

Effective learning means arriving at new power, and the consciousness of new power is one of the most stimulating things in life.

We know in whom we believe, and that, so long as we trust God utterly, all must come right.

The great thing and the hard thing is to stick to things when you have outlived the first interest, and not yet got the second, which comes with a sort of mastery.

Do not wait for ideal circumstances, nor the best opportunities; they will never come.

Are democracy and poetry exclusive of one another and, if so, why?