There is no past that we can bring back by longing for it. There is only an eternally new now that builds and creates itself out of the Best as the past withdraws.

It is delivery that makes the orators success.

I do not speak of what I cannot praise.

One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.

To understand one thing well is better than understanding many things by halves.

Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of human life.