Great minds tend toward banality. It is the noblest effort of individualism. But it implies a sort of modesty, which is so rare that it is scarcely found except in the greatest, or in beggars.

To what a degree the same past can leave different marks - and especially admit of different interpretations.

Families, I hate you! Shut-in homes, closed doors, jealous possessors of happiness

We should enjoy this summer, flower by flower, as if it were to be the last one we’ll see.

Nothing is good for everyone, but only relatively to some people.

The difficulty comes from this, that Christianity (Christian orthodoxy) is exclusive and that belief in its truth excludes belief in any other truth. It does not absorb; it repulses.

Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.