Enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate.

The stuff of which masterpieces are made drifts about the world waiting to be clothed in words.

It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent on making the most evil ugliness.

All excellence is equally difficult.

Many great writers have been extraordinarily awkward in daily exchange, but the greatest give the impression that their style was nursed by the closest attention to colloquial speech.

The revival in religion will be a rhetorical problem - new persuasive words for defaced or degraded ones.

There is no creation without faith and hope. There is no faith and hope that does not express itself in creation.