“gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.”

“We do not need a truth to serve us, we need a truth that we can serve”

“Il faut avoir l'esprit dur et le coeur sensible”

“The more the poet grows, the deeper the level of creative intuition descends into the density of his soul. Where formerly he could be moved to song, he can do nothing now, he must dig deeper. ”

“Since art is a virtue of the intellect, it demands to communicate with the entire universe of the intellect. Hence it is that the normal climate of art is intelligence and knowledge: its normal soil, the civilized heritage of a consistent and integrated system of beliefs and values; its normal horizon , the infinity of human experience enlighted by the passionate insight of anguish or the intellectual virtues of a contemplative mind.”

“If books were judged by the bad uses man can put them to, what book has been more misused than the Bible?”

“The sole philosophy open to those who doubt the possibility of truth is absolute silence -- even mental.”