Sunday is the core of our civilization, dedicated to thought and reverence.

Consider what you have in the smallest chosen library. A company of the wisest and wittiest men that could be picked out of all civil countries, in a thousand years, have set in best order the results of their learning and wisdom.

Let ideas establish their legitimate sway again in society, let life be fair and poetic, and the scholars will gladly be lovers, citizens, and philanthropists.

We, as we read, must become Greeks, Romans, Turks, priest and king, martyr and executioner; must fasten these images to some reality in our secret experience, or we shall learn nothing rightly.

The soul circumscribes all things.

Allow yourself to trust joy and embrace it. You will find you dance with everything.

The highest proof of civility is that the whole public action of the State is directed on securing the greatest good of the greatest number.