It is true that I am of an older fashion; much that I love has been destroyed or sent into exile.

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.

It is very foolish of a man to be frightened of a skeleton, for Nature has put an insurmountable obstacle against running away from it.

Mysticism keeps mankind sane. As long as you have mystery you have health; when you destroy mystery you create morbidity.

The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us.

There are many ways to fall down, but there's only one way to stand up straight.

I do not feel any contempt for an atheist, who is often a man limited and constrained by his own logic to a very sad simplification.