It would not be worth your while to reach the age of seventy if all the wisdom of the world were to be foolishness before God.

Time is a strange thing. It is a whimsical tyrant, which in every century has a different face for all that one says and does.

No one knows what he is doing so long as he is acting rightly; but of what is wrong one is always conscious.

Men's prejudices rest upon their character for the time being and cannot be overcome, as being part and parcel of themselves. Neither evidence nor common sense nor reason has the slightest influence upon them.

It is quite beyond me how anyone can believe God speaks to us in books and stories. If the world does not directly reveal to us our relationship to it, if our hearts fail to tell us what we owe ourselves and others, we shall assuredly not learn it from books, which are at best designed but to give names to our errors.

if only these treasures were not so fragile as they are precious and beautiful.

Art is constitutive-the artist determines beauty. He does not take it over.