Humility is the luxurious art of reducing ourselves to a point, not to a small thing or a large one, but to a thing with no size at all, so that to it all the cosmic things are what they really are - of immeasurable stature.

We are all ordinary people. And it's the extraordinary people Who know it.

Hell is God's great compliment to the reality of human freedom and the dignity of human choice.

if a man would make his world large, he must be always making himself small.

God is like the sun; you cannot look at it, but without it you cannot look at anything else.

. . . For friendship implies individuality; whereas comradeship really implies the temporary subordination, if not the temporary swamping of individuality. Friends are the better for being two; but comrades are the better for being two million.

Every true artist feels that he is touching transcendental truths; that his images are shadows of things seen through the veil.