A man who cannot command himself will always be a slave.

The aim of living is life itself.

I look upon all four Gospels as thoroughly genuine, for there shines forth from them the reflected splendor of a sublimity proceeding from Jesus Christ.

The field of experience is the whole universe in all directions. Theory remains shut up within the limits of human faculties.

You must be either the servant or the master, the hammer or the anvil.

The world is so great and rich, and life so full of variety, that you can never lack occasions for poems.

He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.