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.

The poet should seize the Particular, and he should, if there be anything sound in it, thus represent the Universal.

The human race is a monotonous affair. Most people spend the greatest part of their time working in order to live, and what little freedom remains so fills them with fear that they seek out any and every means to be rid of it.

Every day look at a beautiful picture, read a beautiful poem, listen to some beautiful music, and if possible, say some reasonable thing.

He who has a task to perform must know how to take sides, or he is quite unworthy of it.

The eternal female draws us onward.

It doesn't behoove elderly persons to follow fashion in their thinking nor in the way they dress.