I had to depend on Braille for my reading and guide for my walking...I am now wearing no glasses, reading and all without strain...by taking lessons in seeing...optometrists hate the method.

Chronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.

Every ceiling, when reached, becomes a floor, upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right

In the world of ideas everything was clear; in life all was obscure, embroiled.

Art and religion, carnivals and saturnalia, dancing and listening to oratory - all these have served, in H. G. Wells's phrase, as Doors in the Wall.

Individual insanity is immune to the consequences of collective insanity

There isn't any formula or method. You learn to love by loving - by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done.