The greatest of all heroes is One--whom we do not name here! Let sacred silence meditate that sacred matter; you will find it the ultimate perfection of a principle extant throughout man's whole history on earth.

Perfect ignorance is quiet, perfect knowledge is quiet; not so the transition from the former to the latter.

There are depths in man that go to the lowest hell, and heights that reach the highest heaven, for are not both heaven and hell made out of him, everlasting miracle and mystery that he is.

I call that [Book of Job], apart from all theories about it, one of the grandest things ever written with pen.

Love is the only game that is not called on account of darkness.

The past is all holy to us; the dead are all holy; even they that were wicked when alive.

All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.