All men are mad in some way or the other, and inasmuch as you deal discreetly with your madmen, so deal with God's madmen too, the rest of the world.

Do you not think that there are things which you cannot understand, and yet which are; that some people see things that others cannot? But there are things old and new which must not be contemplate by men´s eyes, because they know -or think they know- some things which other men have told them. Ah, it is the fault of our science that it wants to explain all; and if it explain not, then it says there is nothing to explain.

We are all drifting reefwards now, and faith is our only anchor.

I am longing to be with you, and by the sea, where we can talk together freely and build our castles in the air.

Ah, it is the fault of our science that it wants to explain all; and if it explain not, then it says there is nothing to explain.

He means to succeed, and a man who has centuries before him can afford to wait and to go slow.

Safety and the assurance of safety are things of the past.