Pay attention only to the form; emotion will come spontaneously to inhabit it. A perfect dwelling always finds an inhabitant. The artist's business is to build the dwelling; as for the inhabitant, it is up to the reader to provide him.

"Let the dead bury the dead." There is not a single word of Christ to which the Christian religion has paid less attention.

Man! The most complex of creatures, and for this reason the most dependant of creatures. On everything that has formed you, you may depend. Do not balk at this apparent slavery....a debtor to many, you pay for your advantages by the same number of dependencies. Understand that independence is a form of poverty; that many things claim you, that many also claim kinship with you.

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

Most often people seek in life occasions for persisting in their opinions rather than for educating themselves.

A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned

One completely overcomes only what one assimilates.