“Bid, then, the tender light of faith to shine By which alone the mortal heart is led Unto the thinking of the thought divine.”
Alone“Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality.”
Experience“Bid, then, the tender light of faith to shine By which alone the mortal heart is led Unto the thinking of the thought divine.”
Alone“The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.”
Beauty“To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.”
Patriotism“Knowledge is not eating, and we cannot expect to devour and possess what we mean. Knowledge is recognition of something absent it is a salutation, not an embrace.”
Knowledge“When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions their reasons are always different.”
Men“Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character.”
Happiness“Experience seems to most of us to lead to conclusions, but empiricism has sworn never to draw them.”
Experience“Language is like money, without which specific relative values may well exist and be felt, but cannot be reduced to a common denominator.”
Money“The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal.”
Art“To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman.”
Positive“Music is essentially useless, as is life.”
Music“Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another people are friends in spots.”
Friendship“An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.”
Art“Knowledge is recognition of something absent it is a salutation, not an embrace.”
Knowledge“Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace.”
Courage“The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a thousand meanings.”
Experience“It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss volatile spirits prefer unhappiness.”
Marriage“Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.”
Happiness“The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it.”
Truth“Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality.”
Experience