Profoundness, genius, spontaneity, merit, nobility, ingenuity, voice propriety, feeling, discernment, sensibility, good taste, great tone, rightness, courtliness, vivacity, boldness, style, freshness, harmony, perfection, imagination, purity, correctness. The greatest writer of all times. God's most astonishing creation.

We learn to treasure what is above this earth; we long for revelation, which nowhere burns more purely and more beautifully than in the New Testament.

One cannot develop taste from what is of average quality but only from the very best.

The world cannot do without great men, but great men are very troublesome to the world.

Superstition is rooted in a much deeper and more sensitive layer of the psyche than skepticism.

That we understand something perfectly, that we accomplish something better than anyone else around us, that is what matters.

Men's prejudices rest upon their character for the time being and cannot be overcome, as being part and parcel of themselves. Neither evidence nor common sense nor reason has the slightest influence upon them.