We ought to give thanks for all fortune: if it is good, because it is good; if bad, because it works in us patience, humility, contempt of this world and the hope of our eternal country.

When golden moments come, when God enables one really to pray without words, who but a fool would reject the gift?

It is only when you are asked to believe in Reason coming from non-reason that you must cry Halt. Human minds. They do not come from nowhere.

In your world, I have another name. You should know me by it.

Only He who really lived a human life (and I presume that only one did) can fully taste the horror of death.

To move with the times is, of course, to go where all times go.

Fools!" said the man, stamping his foot with rage. "That is the sort of talk that brought me here, and I'd better have been drowned or never born. Do you hear what I say? This is where dreams — dreams, do you understand — come to life, come real. Not daydreams: dreams.