Suppose, my dear Chadd, suppose it is we who are the idiots because we are not afraid of devils in the dark?

Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.

A great man is not a man so strong that he feels less than other men; he is a man so strong that he feels more.

Romance is the combination of something that is strange with something that is secure.

Science boasts of the distance of its stars; of the terrific remoteness of the things of which it has to speak. But poetry and religion always insist upon the proximity, the almost menacing closeness of the things with which they are concerned. Always the Kingdom of Heaven is "At Hand."

Imagination does not breed insanity. Exactly what does breed insanity is reason. Poets do not go mad, but chess players do.

Facts as facts do not always create a spirit of reality, because reality is a spirit.