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.

Lies, fables and romances must needs be probable, but not the truth and foundation of our faith.

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

What good to me is the festive garment of freedom when I am in a slave's smock at home?

A writer who is in a hurry to be understood today or tomorrow runs the danger of being misunderstood the day after tomorrow.

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

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.