A tradition without intelligence is not worth having.

Hurry up, please, its time.

I love reading another reader’s list of favorites. Even when I find I do not share their tastes or predilections, I am provoked to compare, contrast, and contradict. It is a most healthy exercise, and one altogether fruitful.

Where is the Life we lost in living?

Religion, as distinguished from modern paganism, implies a life in conformity with nature. It may be observed that the natural life and the supernatural life have a conformity to each other which neither has with the mechanistic life...A wrong attitude towards nature implies, somewhere, a wrong attitude towards God...[We should] struggle to recover the sense of relation to nature and to God.

I was too slow a mover to be a boxer. It was much easier to be a poet.

In a world of fugitives, the person taking the opposite direction will appear to run away.