It has been said that figures rule the world. Maybe. But I am sure that figures show us whether it is being ruled well or badly.

Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.

We are pantheists as natural scientists, polytheists as poets, and monotheists as moral beings.

Higher yet and higher out of clouds and night, nearer yet and nearer rising to the light - light, serene and holy where my soul may rest, purified and lowly, sanctified and blest.

I hate every violent overthrow, because as much is destroyed as is gained by it.

Everything is both simpler than we can imagine and more entangled than we can conceive.

The man of understanding finds everything laughable.