“Abstraction allows man to see with his mind what he cannot see physically with his eyes.”

“I cannot see how a man of any large degree of humorous perception can ever be religious -- unless he purposely shut the eyes of his mind & keep them shut by force.”

“God gave us a heart because it often sees what the eyes cannot see and the mind cannot understand.”

“No man is liberated from fear who dare not see his place in the world as it is; no man can achieve the greatness of which he is capable until he has allowed himself to see his own littleness.”

“What he did succeed in seeing behind him in his mind's eye was tiny, compressed like a closed accordion.”

“I would put myself in the attitude to look in the eye an abstract truth, and I cannot. I blench and withdraw on this side and on that. I seem to know what he meant who said, No man can see God face to face and live.”