An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words.

Life is complex in its expression, involving more than percipience, namely desire, emotion, will, and feeling.

...the only simplicity to be trusted is the simplicity to be found on the far side of complexity.

Routine is the god of every social system; it is the seventh heaven of business, the essential component in the success of every factory, the ideal of every statesman. The social machine should run like clockwork.

A man really writes for an audience of about ten persons. Of course if others like it, that is clear gain. But if those ten are satisfied, he is content.

The foundation of reverence is this perception, that the present holds within itself the complete sum of existence, backwards and forwards, that whole amplitude of time, which is eternity.

When success turns a man's head he faces failure