If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.

A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.

And men said that the blood of the stars flowed in her veins

It is by human avarice or human stupidity, not by the churlishness of nature, that we have poverty and overwork.

I would prefer to battle the 'I'm special' feeling not by the thought, 'I'm no more special than anyone else,' by by the feeling, 'Everyone is as special as me.'

The term is over: the holidays have begun. The dream is ended: this is the morning.

What one must not do is to rule out the supernatural as the one impossible explanation.