The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate they are green and vigorous in old age.

Bid, then, the tender light of faith to shine By which alone the mortal heart is led Unto the thinking of the thought divine.

An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.

The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal.

It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz bands.

The love of all-inclusiveness is as dangerous in philosophy as in art.

The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.

Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men.

A conception not reducible to the small change of daily experience is like a currency not exchangeable for articles of consumption it is not a symbol, but a fraud.

Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace.