"Truth and beauty ... yield themselves only to whoever surrenders to them—as to a rescuer."

"Everything great has already been said. But the person who knows how to stimulate his soul with the magnificence of i…"

"The egotism of wisdom: to burn all that is pettily, painfully, stupidly selfish in the fire of love of spiritual visi…"

"The noble Nazarene ... who raged against "the world," against the philistinism, the halfheartedness, the lack of idea…"

"The Jesuit principle: withdrawal from the world—in order to act on the world—was frequently also the prin…"

"The artist and the poet have the facility for mistaking pure languor for meditative peace and strength. True meditati…"

"Sometimes it is hard to avoid a certain feeling of sadness: when realizing that everything sensible has already, many…"

"Whose is the world? Whose is thought? His who loves them."

"Even as there is no virtue which is wanting to the busy man, so there is no vice which does not bear the idle company."

"Where wedges are worthless, the finger nails may serve."