What Makes Man Most Unhappy Is To

Americans Seem Sometimes To Believe That If You Are A Thinker You Must Be A Frowning Bore, Because Thinking Is So Dam Serious.

In Loving Things And The Being In Them Man Should Rather Draw Things Up To The Human Level Than Reduce Humanity To Their Measure.

For To Love Is To Give What One Is, His Very Being, In The Most Absolute, The Most Brazenly Metaphysical, The Least Phenomenalizable Sense Of This Word.

It Is Necessary That The Object That The Artist Is Shaping, Whether It Be A Vase Of Clay Or A Fishing Boat, Be Significant Of Something Other Than Itself. This Object Must Be A Sign As Well As An Object; A Meaning Must Animate It, And Make It Say More Than It Is.

To Redeem Creation The Saint Wages War On The Entire Fabric Of Creation, With The Bare Weapons Of Truth And Love.