Imagination without culture is crippled and moves slowly; but it can be pure imagination, and rich also, as folk-lore will tell the vainest.

Christianity is a formula: it is nothing more.

What is failure except feebleness? And what is it to miss one's mark except to aim widely and weakly?

There is no knife that cuts so sharply and with such poisoned blade as treachery.

The song that we hear with our ears is only the song that is sung in our hearts.

Excess always carries its own retribution.

Indifference is the invincible grant of the world.