Few authors understand themselves, and a proper reader must not only understand his author but also be able to see beyond him.

Few authors understand themselves, and a proper reader must not only understand his author but also be able to see beyond him.

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.

What for others is style, for me is soul.

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.

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?