The overwhelming pressure of mediocrity, sluggish and indomitable as a glacier, will mitigate the most violent, and depress the most exalted revolution.

I must tell you that I should really like to think there's something wrong with me- Because, if there isn't, then there's something wrong with the world itself-and that's much more frightening! That would be terrible. So I'd rather believe there is something wrong with me, that could be put right.

Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly.

The hippopotamus's day Is passed in sleep; at night he hunts; God works in a mysterious way- The Church can sleep and feed at once.

Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?

I say to you: Make perfect your will. / I say: take no thought of the harvest, / But only of proper sowing.

In order to arrive at what you are not, you must go through the way in which you are not.