Events that are predestined require but little management. They manage themselves. They slip into place while we sleep, and suddenly we are aware that the thing we fear to attempt, is already accomplished.

the matrimonial shoe pinches me.

I wear the key of memory, and can open every door in the house of my life.

Laughter is always fatal to feeling.

the nighttime of the body is the daytime of the soul.

It is always the simple that produces the marvelous.

Death is like the setting of the sun. The sun never sets; life never ceases. ... we think the sun sets, and it never ceases shining; we think our friends die, and they never cease living.