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."

Every heresy has been an effort to narrow the Church.

There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob.

It is the main earthly business of a human being to make his home, and the immediate surroundings of his home, as symbolic and significant to his own imagination as he can.

Women prefer to talk in twos, while men prefer to talk in threes.

A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.

And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.