Art needs no spur beyond itself.

Do not ask the name of the person who seeks a bed for the night. He who is reluctant to give his name is the one who most needs shelter.

No one can keep a secret better than a child.

A garden to walk in and immensity to dream in--what more could he ask? A few flowers at his feet and above him the stars.

Strange to say, the luminous world is the invisible world; the luminous world is that which we do not see. Our eyes of flesh see only night.

A cannonball travels only two thousand miles an hour; light travels two hundred thousand miles a second. Such is the superiority of Jesus Christ over Napoleon.

Nothing can be sadder or more profound than to see a thousand things for the first and last time.