Nothing comes of severity if there be no leanings towards a change of heart. And if there be natural leanings towards a change of heart, what need for severity?

In every crowd are certain persons who seem just like the rest, yet they bear amazing messages.

Action and personal happiness have no truck with each other; they are eternally at war.

No truth is proved, no truth achieved, by argument, and the ready-made truths men offer you are mere conveniences or drugs to make you sleep.

Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.

There is no hope of joy except in human relations.

We say nothing essential about the cathedral when we speak of its stones. We say nothing essential about Man when we seek to define him by the qualities of men.