“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“A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted.”
Happiness“The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it.”
Dreams“By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a man's power to answer do not occur to him at all.”
Nature“Language is like money, without which specific relative values may well exist and be felt, but cannot be reduced to a common denominator.”
Money“Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth.”
Religion“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“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“Knowledge is recognition of something absent it is a salutation, not an embrace.”
Knowledge“Society is like the air, necessary to breathe but insufficient to live on.”
Society“The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a thousand meanings.”
Experience“It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz bands.”
Art“Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character.”
Happiness“Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.”
Wisdom“To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.”
Patriotism“Happiness is the only sanction of life where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.”
Happiness“To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.”
Nature“It is possible to be a master in false philosophy, easier, in fact, than to be a master in the truth, because a false philosophy can be made as simple and consistent as one pleases.”
Truth“Only the dead have seen the end of the war.”
War“Music is essentially useless, as is life.”
Music“The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy.”
Wisdom