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

Philosophy means thinking things out for oneself. Ultimately, there can be only one true philosophy, since reason is one and we all live in the same world.

The happy people are those who are producing something.

When our first parents were driven out of Paradise, Adam is believed to have remarked to Eve, "My dear, we live in an age of transition."

Love remembered and consecrated by grief belongs, more clearly than the happy intercourse of friends, to the eternal world; it has proved itself stronger than death.

We should think of the church as an orchestra in which the different churches play on different instruments while a Divine Conductor calls the tune.

No healthy civilization can ever be reared on a foundation of devitalized work.