The spiritual is the parent of the practical.

Is man’s civilization only a wrappage, through which the savage nature of him can still burst, infernal as ever?

Dinners are defined as 'the ultimate act of communion;' men that can have communion in nothing else, can sympathetically eat together, can still rise into some glow of brotherhood over food and wine.

The beginning of all wisdom is to look fixedly on clothes, or even with armed eyesight, till they become transparent.

The hell of these days is the fear of not getting along, especially of not making money.

Only the person of worth can recognize the worth in others.

To know, to get into the truth of anything, is ever a mystic art, of which the best logic's can but babble on the surface.