Christianity must be regarded not as a final revelation but as a phase of revelation.

For the sake of my country, and perhaps a little for the sake of my soul, I have given up the deep peace of being in opposition.

Everyone realizes that one can believe little of what people say about each other. But it is not so widely realized that even less can one trust what people say about themselves.

art is at least in part a way of collecting information about the universe.

I do not think women understand how repelled a man feels when he sees a woman wholly absorbed in what she is thinking, unless it is about her child, or her husband, or her lover. It ... gives one gooseflesh.

The delight we find in art amounts to recognition of a saving grace, to an acknowledgment that the problem of life has a solution implicit in its own nature, though not yet formulated by the intellect.

Did St. Francis preach to the birds? Whatever for? If he really liked birds he would have done better to preach to the cats.