I dream in fire but work in clay.

The saint endeavors to recover a gift which he has lost; the sinner tries to obtain something which was never his. In brief, he repeats the Fall.

For, usually and fitly, the presence of an introduction is held to imply that there is something of consequence and importance to be introduced.

Now, everybody, I suppose, is aware that in recent years the silly business of divination by dreams has ceased to be a joke and has become a very serious science.

There are certain scenes, certain hills and valleys and groves of pines which demand that a story shall be written about them. I would refine; I would say that the emotions aroused by these external things reverberating in the heart are indeed the story; or all that signifies the story....We translate a hill into a tale, conceive lovers to explain a brook, turn the perfect into the imperfect.

In every grain of wheat there lies hidden the soul of a star.

It was better, he thought, to fail in attempting exquisite things than to succeed in the department of the utterly contemptible.