“The “Metaphor is one of thoughts most essential tools. It illuminates what would otherwise be totally obscure. But the illumination is sometimes so bright that it dazzles instead of revealing.”

“Steadiness of faith, was, in the long run, as illuminating and essential as sophistication of thought.”

“There are two kinds of light - the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.”

“There was such a difference, he thought, between the beauty that illuminated, and the beauty that was illuminated.”

“You must take care to light the matches one at a time. If a powerful emotion should ignite them all at once, they would produce a splendor so dazzling that it would illuminate far beyond what we can normally see; and then a brilliant tunnel would appear before our eyes, revealing the path we forgot the moment we were born, and summoning us to regain the divine origins we had lost. The soul ever longs to return to the place from which it came, leaving the body lifeless.”

“One needs to properly possess only a couple of great thoughts--they shed light on many stretches whose illumination one would never have believed in.”