Love is created and preserved by intellectual analysis, for we love only that which is unique, and it belongs to contemplation, not to action, for we would not change that which we love.

A line will take us hours maybe; Yet if it does not seem a moment's thought, our stitching and unstitching has been naught.

We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.

Supreme art is a traditional statement of certain heroic and religious truth, passed on from age to age, modified by individual genius, but never abandoned.

What's memory but the ash That chokes our fires that have begun to sink?

Words alone are certain good.

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