"From man or angel the Great Architect did wisely to conceal, and not divulge his secrets, to be scanned by them who ought rather admire." -John Milton
"Exister, por nous, c'est sentir; et notre sensibilite est incontestablement anterieure a notre raison." - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
"Some also have wished that the next way to their Father's house were here that they might be troubled no more with either hills or mountains to go over, but the way is the way, and there's an end." - John Bunyan
"I do not admire the excess of some one virtue unless I am shown at the same time the excess of the opposite virtue. A man does not prove his greatness by standing at an extremity, but by touching both extremities at once and filling all that lies between them." -Pascal
"Everything beautiful is difficult." -Plato
"There have always been two attitudes. There is a christian 'left,' eager to detect and anxious to banish every pagan element; but also a Christian 'right' who, like St. Augustine, could find the doctrine of the trinity foreshadowed in the Platonici, or could claim triumphantly like Justin Martyr. 'Whatever things have been well said by all men belong to us Christians." -C.S Lewis
The image of whom all joys are but shadow.