If seeds in the black earth can turn into such beautiful roses, what might not the heart of man become in its long journey toward the stars?

Each generation is converted by the saint who contradicts it most.

You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.

The worst moment for an atheist is when he feels a profound sense of gratitude and has no one to thank.

There is no way in which a man can earn a star or deserve a sunset.

The timidity of the child or the savage is entirely reasonable; they are alarmed at this world, because this world is a very alarming place. They dislike being alone because it is verily and indeed an awful idea to be alone. Barbarians fear the unknown for the same reason that Agnostics worship it - because it is a fact.

Now, among the heresies that are spoken in this matter is the habit of calling a grey day a "colourless" day. Grey is a colour, and can be a very powerful and pleasing colour.... A grey clouded sky is indeed a canopy between us and the sun; so is a green tree, if it comes to that. But the grey umbrellas differ as much as the green in their style and shape, in their tint and tilt. One day may be grey like steel, and another grey like dove’s plumage. One may seem grey like the deathly frost, and another grey like the smoke of substantial kitchens.