In the room the women come and go talking of Michelangelo.

Disillusion can become itself an illusion If we rest in it.

To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life.

Mediocre writers borrow; great writers steal.

There will be time to murder and create.

The hint half guessed, the gift half understood, is incarnation. Here the impossible union of spheres of existence is actual. Here the past and future are conquered and reconciled.

Humility is the most difficult of all virtues to achieve; nothing dies harder than the desire to think well of self.