In theology the conservative temper tends to formalism.

Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active.

There are few efforts more conducive to humility than that of the translator trying to communicate an incommunicable beauty. Yet, unless we do try, something unique and never surpassed will cease to exist except in the libraries of a few inquisitive book lovers.

The suffering of a soul that can suffer greatly -- that and only that, is tragedy.

A word is no light matter. Words have with truth been called fossil poetry, each, that is, a symbol of a creative thought.

When the world is storm-driven and bad things happen, then we need to know all the strong fortresses of the spirit which men have built through the ages.

When the mind withdraws into itself and dispenses with facts it makes only chaos.