When you have reached your own room, be kind to those Who have chosen different doors and to those who are still in the hall.

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

We may ignore, but we can nowhere evade the presence of God. The world is crowded with Him. He walks everywhere incognito.

The greatest evil is not done in those sordid dens of evil that Dickens loved to paint ... but is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clear, carpeted, warmed, well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voices.

Good philosophy must exist, if for no other reason, because bad philosophy needs to be answered.

The beauty of life, is that you don't have to be modernly beautiful to live it.

Necessity may not be the opposite of freedom, and perhaps a man is most free when, instead of producing motives, he could only say, "I am what I do.