Every phenomenon of nature was a word, - the sign, symbol and pledge of a new, mysterious, inexpressible but all the more intimate union, participation and community of divine energies and ideas.

Our reason arises, at the very least, from this twofold lesson of sensuous revelations and human testimonies.

What Tarquin the Proud said in his garden with the poppy blooms was understood by the son but not by the messenger.

When I rest my feet my mind also ceases to function.

The product of paper and printed ink, that we commonly call the book, is one of the great visible mediators between spirit and time, and, reflecting zeitgeist, lasts as long as ore and stone.

Every phenomenon of nature was a word, - the sign, symbol and pledge of a new, mysterious, inexpressible but all the more intimate union, participation and community of divine energies and ideas.

If only I was as eloquent as Demosthenes, I would have to do no more than repeat a single word three times.