The romantic seeks only to get his head into the heavens. The rationalist seeks to get the heavens into his head – and it is his head that splits.

“But again I seem to hear, like a kind of echo, an answer from beyond the world.…”

“Do you think Friday unlucky? No, I think Friday lucky, All Christian people, wh…”

“It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.”

“The great error consists in supposing that poetry is an unnatural form of langu…”