The disadvantage of men not knowing the past is that they do not know the present. History is a hill or high point of vantage, from which alone men see the town in which they live or the age in which they are living.

Every heresy has been an effort to narrow the Church.

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.

Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf; is better than a whole loaf.

When we really worship anything, we love not only its clearness but its obscurity. We exult in its very invisibility.

The cosmos is about the smallest hole that a man can hide his head in.

The center of every man's existence is a dream.