“Skepticism is the beginning of faith.”

“What of Art?-It is a malady.--Love?-An Illusion.--Religion?-The fashionable substitute for Belief.--You are a sceptic.-Never! Scepticism is the beginning of Faith.--What are you?-To define is to limit.”

“In every sphere of life, form is the beginning of things. […] Forms are the food of faith, cried Newman in one of those great moments of sincerity that made us admire the know the man. […] The Creeds are believed, not because they are rational, but because they are repeated.”

“Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.”

“Young men want to be faithful, and are not. Old men want to be faithless, and cannot.”

“To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.”

“Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect - simply a confession of failures.”