Before giving advice we must have secured its acceptance, or, rather, have made it desired.

For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will.

An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.

Criticism is above all a gift, an intuition, a matter of tact and flair; it cannot be taught or demonstrated--it is an art.

Christianity, if it is to triumph over pantheism, must absorb it. To our pusillanimous eyes Jesus would have borne the marks of a hateful pantheism, for he confirmed the Biblical phrase "ye are gods," and so would St. Paul, who tells us that we are of "the race of God." Our century wants a new theology - that is to say, a more profound explanation of the nature of Christ and of the light which it flashes upon heaven and upon humanity.

Dreams are excursions into the limbo of things, a semi-deliverance from the human prison.

Great men are the real men, in them nature has succeeded.