No man who values originality will ever be original. But try to tell the truth as you see it, try to do any bit of work as well as it can be done for the work's sake, and what men call originality will come unsought.

And so for a time it looked as if all the adventures were coming to and end; but that was not to be.

And how could we endure to live and let time pass if we were always crying for one day or one year to come back--if we did not know that every day in a life fills the whole life with expectation and memory and that these are that day?

As the king governs by his executive, so Reason in man must rule the mere appetites by means of the 'spirited element.'

We sit down before the picture in order to have something done to us, not that we may do things with it. The first demand any work of art makes upon us is surrender. Look. Listen. Receive. Get yourself out of the way (there is no good asking first whether the work before you deserves such a surrender, for until you have surrendered you cannot possibly find out.

Every contact you make with everyone you meet will help them or hinder them on their journey to heaven.

The greatest evils in the world will not be carried out by men with guns, but by men in suits sitting behind desks