The mathematical sciences wield their particular language made of digits and signs, no less subtle than any other.

God must not engage in theology. The writer must not destroy by human reasonings the faith that art requires of us.

He thought that the rose was to be found in its own eternity and not in his words; and that we may mention or allude to a thing, but not express it.

Fame is a form, perhaps the worst form, of incomprehension.

A . . . poet is a discoverer rather than an inventor.

The poverty of yesterday was less squalid than the poverty we purchase with our industry today. Fortunes were smaller then as well.

While we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another one