We can make our minds so like still water that beings gather about us that they may see, it may be, their own images, and so live for a moment with a clearer, perhaps even with a fiercer life because of our quiet.

The light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed, the shadow of shadows on the deed alone.

Teaching is not filling up a pail, it is lighting a fire.

Many ingenious lovely things are gone / That seemed sheer miracle to the multitude.

Myself I must remake.

Once you attempt legislation upon religious grounds, you open the way for every kind of intolerance and religious persecution.

Because I helped to wind the clock, I come to hear it strike.