Humility is the secret of the wise.

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

Poetry being ... when we look from the center outward.

Coolness and absence of heat and haste indicate fine qualities.

What you are shouts at me so loudly that I can't hear a word you say.

Criticism should not be querulous and wasting, all knife and root-puller, but guiding, instructive, inspiring, a south wind, not an east wind.

Each man has his own vocation. The talent is the call. There is one direction in which all space is open to him. He has faculties silently inviting him thither to endless exertion. He is like a ship in the river; he runs against obstructions on every side but one; on that side all obstruction is taken away, and he sweeps serenely over a deepening channel into an infinite sea.