True religion teaches us to reverence what is under us, to recognize humility and poverty, and, despite mockery and disgrace, wretchedness, suffering, and death, as things divine.

He who moves not forward, goes backward.

In art, the best is good enough.

We learn to treasure what is above this earth; we long for revelation, which nowhere burns more purely and more beautifully than in the New Testament.

Don't judge anyone harshly until you yourself have been through his experiences

Tolerance should really only be a passing attitude: it should lead to appreciation. To tolerate is to offend.

A resolution that is communicated is no longer within thy power; thy attentions become now the plaything of chance; he who would have his commands certainly carried out must take man by surprise.