We are accustomed to the artist scoundrel or specialist in vice, and unaccustomed to the creator in whom passion and reason and moral integrity hold in balance. But greatness of intellect and feeling, or soul and conduct - magnanimity, in short - does occur; it is not a myth for boy scouts, and its reality is important, if only to give us the true range of the term 'human,' which we so regularly define by its lower reaches.

The one thing that unifies men in a given age is not their individual philosophies but the dominant problem that these philosophies are designed to solve.

History, like a vast river, propels logs, vegetation, rafts, and debris; it is full of live and dead things, some destined for resurrection; it mingles many wa…

The greatest artists have never been men of taste. By never sophisticating their instincts they have never lost the awareness of the great simplicities, which …

He has a good character, and not many people do. I think he would rather not do anything wrong, whether on a moral or an artistic level. He is what you would c…

In sober state, Through the sequestered vale of rural life, The venerable patriarch guileless held The tenor of his way.

Illustrious acts high raptures do infuse, And every conqueror creates a muse.