The truth is a trap: you cannot get it without it getting you; you cannot get the truth by capturing it, only by its capturing you.

What looks like politics, and imagines itself to be political, will one day unmask itself as a religious movement.

With the daguerreotype, everyone will be able to have their portrait taken . . . and at the same time everything is being done to make us all look exactly the same.

Which is more difficult, to awaken one who sleeps or to awaken one who, awake, dreams that he is awake?

My standpoint is armed neutrality.

The best news the World has ever heard came from a graveyard - Christ is risen!

One can advise comfortably from a safe port.