The books that are really valuable are the books that evoke a sense of place.
They who forgive most shall be most forgiven.
To see a world in a grain of sand And a heaven in a wild flower, Hold infinity in the palm of your hand, And eternity in an hour.
The inquiry in England is not whether a man has talents and genius, but whether he is passive and polite and a virtuous ass and obedient to noblemen's opinions in art and science. If he is, he is a good man. If not, he must be starved.
In the universe, there are things that are known, and things that are unknown, and in between, there are doors.
He who sees the Infinite in all things sees God.
As we are, so we see.
If you wait until those weapons pose a direct, clear, present danger to the United States, you've probably waited too long.
My light shines when things get really tough.
Universal appreciation of art. . . belongs to those countries and those ages which are not, or were not, ruled by materialism. Though travel was never so easy, literature on art never so profuse, and works of art never so widely distributed, a real passion for pictures is encountered but rarely.
When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence.