The place where two friends first met is sacred to them all through their friendship, all the more sacred as their friendship deepens and grows old.

Wherever, in any world, a soul, by free-willed obedience, catches the fire of God's likeness, it is set into the growing walls, a living stone.

The feet of the humblest may walk in the field Where the feet of the Holiest trod, This, then, is the marvel to mortals revealed.

Devotion is like the candle which Michael Angelo used to take in his pasteboard cap, so as not to throw his shadow upon the work in which he was engaged.

A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words.

Life is too short to nurse one's misery. Hurry across the lowlands so that you may spend more time on the mountain tops.

Greatness is not so much a certain size as a certain quality in your life.