Feasts must be solemn and rare, or else they cease to be feasts.

Indifference to all the refinements of life--it's really shocking. Just Calvinism, that's all. Calvinism without the excuse of Calvin's theology.

I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.

Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.

Facts are ventriloquist’s dummies. Sitting on a wise man’s knee they may be made to utter words of wisdom; elsewhere, they say nothing, or talk nonsense, or indulge in sheer diabolism.

Christianity accepted as given a metaphysical system derived from several already existing and mutually incompatible systems.

There's only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God.