Life is judged with all the blindness of life itself.

The same battle in the clouds will be known to the deaf only as lightning and to the blind only as thunder.

The true Christian is in all countries a pilgrim and a stranger.

If all art aspires to the condition of music, all the sciences aspire to the condition of mathematics.

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

Society itself is an accident to the spirit, and if society in any of its forms is to be justified morally it must be justified at the bar of the individual conscience.

Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality.