Art achieves all little things by absolute truth: but all her great things need some admixture of illusion.

As the bud a leaf, so at last the thought becomes a word.

Thou canst not pray to God without praying to Love, but mayest pray to Love without praying to God.

Passion is Love's blind guide, but the only one he hath.

Would the atheist continue such, let him beware how he admits Love into his breast: for God will surely come along with him.

Then is Love blest, when from the cup of the body he drinks the wine of the soul.

The three eldest children of Necessity: God, the World and love.