Great Throughts Treasury

"The highest art is always the most religious; and the greatest artist is always a devout man. A scoffing Raphael or Michael Angelo is not conceivable."

"Of sphere harmonious linked to sphere, in endless bright array. All that far-reaching Science there can measure with her rod, all powers, all laws, are but the fair embodied thoughts of God."

"The present... is everywhere at once the child of the past, and the parent of the future."

"Brahma is the great Creator, life a mystic drama; Heaven, and Earth, and living Nature are but masks of Brahma."

"A fair face without a fair soul is like a glass eye that shines and sees nothing."

"Creation is the production of order. What a simple, but, at the same time, comprehensive and pregnant principle is here! Plato could tell his disciples no ultimate truth of more pervading significance. Order is the law of all intelligible existence."