Passion makes every detail important.

The sane man knows that he has a touch of the beast, a touch of the devil, a touch of the saint, a touch of the citizen. Nay, the really sane man knows that he has a touch of the madman.

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.

Joy, which was the small publicity of the pagan, is the gigantic secret of the Christian.

The sort of man who admires Italian art while despising Italian religion is a tourist and a cad.

It is a mathematical fact that if a line be not perfectly directed towards a point, it will actually go further away from it as it comes nearer to it.

Nothing taken for granted; everything received with gratitude; everything passed on with grace.