But genius looks forward: the eyes of men are set in his forehead, not in his hindhead: man hopes: genius creates.

There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book we read becomes luminous with manifold allusion. Every sentence is doubly significant, and the sense of our author is as broad as the world.

Are you not scared by seeing that the gypsies are more attractive to us than the apostles?

The Englishman who has lost his fortune is said to have died of a broken heart.

To be great is to be misunderstood.

The world is all outside, it has no inside.

As soon as the man is at one with God, he will not beg. He will then see prayer in all action.