Let a man learn to look for the permanent in the mutable and fleeting; let him learn to bear the disappearance of things he was wont to reverence; without losing his reverence; let him learn that he is here, not to work, but to be worked upon; and that, though abyss open under abyss, and opinion displace opinion, all are at last contained in the Eternal Cause.

The path of things is silent. Will they suffer a speaker to go with them?

A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self control is the rule. Anger is an uncontrollable feeling that betrays what you are when you are not yourself. Anger is that powerful internal force that blows out the light of reason. Know this to be the enemy: it is anger, born of desire.

He in whom the love of truth predominates . . . submits to the inconvenience of suspense and imperfect opinion; but he is a candidate for truth . . . and respects the highest law of his being.

It has been the office of art to educate the perception of beauty. We are immersed in beauty but our eyes have no clear vision.

The land is the appointed remedy for whatever is false and fantastic in our culture...food for our mind, as well as our body.

Philanthropic and religious bodies do not commonly make their executive officers out of saints.