There is no past we can bring back by longing for it. There is only an eternal now that builds and creates out of the past something new and better.

Profoundness, genius, spontaneity, merit, nobility, ingenuity, voice propriety, feeling, discernment, sensibility, good taste, great tone, rightness, courtliness, vivacity, boldness, style, freshness, harmony, perfection, imagination, purity, correctness. The greatest writer of all times. God's most astonishing creation.

The world is so full of simpletons and madmen, that one need not seek them in a madhouse.

We all of us live upon the past, and through the past we are destroyed.

The soul of the Christian religion is reverence.

It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.

One never learns to understand truly anything but what one loves.