Modern intelligence won't accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.

Christianity got over the difficulty of combining furious opposites, by keeping them both, and keeping them both furious.

If seeds in the black earth can turn into such beautiful roses, what might not the heart of man become in its long journey toward the stars?

All science, even the divine science, is a sublime detective story. Only it is not set to detect why a man is dead; but the darker secret of why he is alive.

If the barricades went up in our streets and the poor became masters, I think the priests would escape, I fear the gentlemen would; but I believe the gutters would simply be running with the blood of philanthropists.

The poet only asks to get his head into the heavens. It is the logician who seeks to get the heavens into his head. And it is his head that splits.

The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land.