It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true

We want the spirit of America to be efficient we want American character to be efficient we want American character to display itself in what I may, perhaps, be allowed to call spiritual efficiency - clear disinterested thinking and fearless action

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable

The first act of awe, when man was struck with the beauty or wonder of Nature, was the first spiritual experience.

All that we call spirit and art and ecstacy only means that for one awful instant we remember that we forgot

Where the spirit does not work with the hand there is no art

The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them