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Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.

Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.

Because thou must not dream, thou need not despair.

And we forget because we must and not because we will.

It is almost impossible to exaggerate the proneness of the human mind to take miracles as evidence, and to seek for miracles as evidence.

The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.

The true meaning of religion is thus, not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.

To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged; practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.

Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.

It is so small a thing to have enjoyed the sun, to have lived light in the spring, to have loved, to have thought, to have done.

The need of expansion is as genuine an instinct in man as the need in a plant for the light, or the need in man himself for going upright. The love of liberty is simply the instinct in man for expansion.