I am not one who was born in the custody of wisdom I am one who is fond of olden times and intense in quest of the sacred knowing of the ancients.

In the last fifty years science has advanced more than in the 2 000 previous years and given mankind greater powers over the forces of nature than the ancients ascribed to their gods.

Nothing truly convincing - which would possess thoroughness vigor and skill - has been written against the ancients as yet especially not against their poetry.

From what the moderns want we must learn what poetry should become from what the ancients did what poetry must be.

Medical research in the twentieth century mostly takes place in the lab in the Renaissance though researchers went first and foremost to the library to see what the ancients had said.

Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns.

Hold firmly that our faith is identical with that of the ancients. Deny this and you dissolve the unity of the Church.