Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.

People forget that it is the eye which makes the horizon, and the rounding mind's eye which makes this or that man a type or representative of humanity with the name of hero or saint.

The new statement is always hated by the old, and, to those dwelling in the old, comes like an abyss of skepticism.

Our faith comes in moments . . . yet there is a depth in those brief moments which constrains us to ascribe more reality to them than to all other experiences.

Religion must always be a crab fruit; it cannot be grafted, and keep its wild beauty.

Poetry must be as new as foam and as old as the rock.

A nation, like a tree, does not thrive well till it is engraffed with a foreign stock.