Self knowledge begins with the neighbor, the mirror, and just the same with true self-love; that goes from the mirror to the matter.

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

Everything the human being heard from the beginning, saw with its eyes, looked upon and touched with its hands was a living word; for God was the word.

Hence it happens that one takes words for concepts, and concepts for the things themselves

Self knowledge begins with the neighbor, the mirror, and just the same with true self-love; that goes from the mirror to the matter.

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.

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