The spirit's foe in man has not been simplicity, but sophistication.

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

Nothing is inherently and invincibly young except spirit. And spirit can enter a human being perhaps better in the quiet of old age and dwell there more undisturbed than in the turmoil of adventure.

Old places and old persons in their turn, when spirit dwells in them, have an intrinsic vitality of which youth is incapable, precisely, the balance and wisdom that come from long perspectives and broad foundations

As man is now constituted, to be brief is almost a condition of being inspired

Let a man once overcome his selfish terror at his own finitude, and his finitude is, in one sense, overcome