If you prefer illusions to realities, it is only because all decent realities have eluded you and left you in the lurch; or else your contempt for the world is mere hypocrisy and funk.

Men have feverishly conceived a heaven only to find it insipid, and a hell to find it ridiculous.

Love, whether sexual, parental, or fraternal, is essentially sacrificial, and prompts a man to give his life for his friends.

To be bewitched is not to be saved, though all the magicians and aesthetes in the world should pronounce it to be so.

The best men in all ages keep classic traditions alive

All language is rhetorical, and even the senses are poets.

Prayer is not a substitute for work; it is an effort to work further and be efficient beyond the range of one's powers.