A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.

Contemporary society has become dry, not for lack of wonders but for lack of wonder.

the object of a new year is not that we should have a new year, but rather that we should have a new soul.

For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.

The poet only asks to get his head into the heavens. It is the logician who seeks to get the heavens into his head. And it is his head that splits.

Without authority there is no liberty. Freedom is doomed to destruction at every turn, unless there is a recognized right to freedom. And if there are rights, there is an authority to which we appeal for them.

And it is always the humble man who talks too much; the proud man watches himself too closely.