God is rich in mercy. I know this wealth of his with the certainty of experience, I have touched it.

We can only know one thing about God - that he is what we are not. Our wretchedness alone is an image of this. The more we contemplate it, the more we contemplate him.

The apprehension of necessity is an imitation of creation.

We must prefer real hell to an imaginary paradise.

When science, art, literature, and philosophy are simply the manifestation of personality, they are on a level where glorious and dazzling achievements are possible, which can make a man's name live for thousands of years. But above this level, far above, separated by an abyss, is the level where the highest things are achieved. These things are essentially anonymous.

It is impossible that the whole of truth should not be present at every time and every place, available for anyone who desires it.

Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.