One is as one is, and the love that can't encompass both is a poor sort of love.

An American who can make money, invoke God, and be no better than his neighbor, has nothing to fear but truth itself.

A candidate for office can have no greater advantage than muddled syntax; no greater liability than a command of language.

Revelation is the marriage of knowing and feeling.

Surely the hold of great music on the listener is precisely this: that the listener is made whole; and at the same time part of an image of infinite grace and grandeur which is creation.

The process of maturing is an art to be learned, an effort to be sustained.

Good-fellowship, unflagging, is the prime requisite for success in our society, and the man or woman who smiles only for reasons of humor or pleasure is a deviate.