For though love has been ridiculed and disgraced, exchanged and bartered, dragged through the courts, and sold for thirty pieces of silver, the bright, steady glow of its fire still shines on the hearth-stones of countless homes.

They are the most painful tears in the world ... the tears of the aged ... for they come from dried beds where the emotions have long burned low.

thoughts are acrobats, agile and quite often untrustworthy.

not all clever words are true. ... And inversely most things that are true are not clever.

Except for our higher order of minds we are like the little moles under the earth carrying out blindly the work of digging, thinking our own dark passage-ways constitute all there is to the world.

When I was young I had no means or time, and now I have the means and time, I have no youth.

Biggest affirmative argument I know in favor of 'If a man die, shall he live again?' is just the way you feel inside you that nothin' can stop you from livin' on.