Even the paradise of fools is not an unpleasant abode while it is inhabitable.

All human love is a holy thing, the holiest thing in our experience.

Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful or to discover something that is true.

Experience proves that none is so cruel as the disillusioned sentimentalist.

Bereavement is the sharpest challenge to our trust in God; if faith can overcome this, there is no mountain which it cannot remove.

Beautiful thoughts hardly bring us to God until they are acted upon. No one can have a true idea of right until he does it.

Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art.