In the main, and from the beginning of time, mysticism has kept men sane. The thing that has driven them mad was logic.

There are two kinds of people in the world, the conscious dogmatists and the unconscious dogmatists. I have always found myself that the unconscious dogmatists were by far the most dogmatic.

The cross cannot be defeated for it is defeat.

We do not need a censorship of the press. We have a censorship by the press... It is not we who silence the press. It is the press who silences us.

The highest and noblest thing that history can be is a good story.

Man is always something worse or something better than an animal; and a mere argument from animal perfection never touches him at all. Thus, in sex no animal is either chivalrous or obscene. And thus no animal invented anything so bad as drunkeness - or so good as drink.

A mystic is a man who separates heaven and earth even if he enjoys them both.