No idea is isolated, but is only what it is among all ideas.

Novels tend to end as the Paternoster begins: with the kingdom of God on earth.

A priest is he who lives solely in the realm of the invisible, for whom all that is visible has only the truth of an allegory.

Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry.

Man is a creative retrospection of nature upon itself.

Wit is an explosion of the compound spirit.

Many a witty inspiration is like the surprising reunion of befriended thoughts after a long separation.