We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason ourselves into it.

Hearts are not had as a gift, But hearts are earned.

Whence had they come The hand and lash that beat down frigid Rome? What sacred drama through her body heaved When world-transforming Charlemagne was conceived?

Any fool can fight a winning battle, but it needs character to fight a losing one, and that should inspire us; which reminds me that I dreamed the other night that I was being hanged, but was the life and soul of the party.

All the great masters have understood that there cannot be great art without the little limited life of the fable, which is always better the simpler it is, and the rich, far-wandering, many-imaged life of the half-seen world beyond it

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

The blessed spirits must be sought within the self which is common to all