An answer in words is delusive; it is really no answer to the questions you ask.

Art is evidence of our most creative moment.

Dare to love God without mediator or veil.

Times of heroism are generally times of terror, but the day never shines in which this element may not work.

In the order of nature, we cannot render benefits to those from whom we receive them, or only seldom. But the benefit we receive must be rendered again, line for line, deed for deed, cent for cent, to somebody. Beware of too much good staying in your hand. It will fast corrupt and worm worms. Pay it away quickly in some sort.

All nobility in its beginnings was somebody's natural superiority.

In the actual world--the painful kingdom of time and place--dwell care, and canker, and fear. With thought, with the ideal, is immortal hilarity, the rose of joy.