Science has done much for us; but it is a poor science that would hide from us the great deep sacred infinitude of Nescience, on which all science swims as a mere superficial film.

It is a mathematical fact that the casting of this pebble from my hand alters the centre of gravity of the universe.

The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better.

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Literature is the thought of thinking souls.

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

There needs not a great soul to make a hero; there needs a god-created soul which will be true to its origin; that will be a great soul!