The following are the universally fundamental laws of literary communication: 1. one must have something to communicate; 2. one must have someone to whom to communicate it; 3. one must really communicate it, not merely express it for oneself alone. Otherwise it would be more to the point to remain silent.

Morality without a sense of paradox is mean.

In true prose everything must be underlined.

God is each truly and exalted thing, therefore the individual himself to the highest degree. But are not nature and the world individuals?

If you want to see mankind fully, look at a family. Within the family minds become organically one, and for this reason the family is total poetry.

An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and complete in itself like a hedgehog.

Religion is not only a part of education, an element of humanity, but the center of everything else, always the first and the ultimate, the absolutely original.