Materialism is in fact no protection. Those who seek it in that hope (they are not a negligible class) will be disappointed. The thing you fear is impossible. Well and good. Can you therefore cease to fear it? Not here and now. And what then? If you must see ghosts, it is better not to disbelieve in them.

If we will not learn to eat the only food that the universe grows...then we must starve eternally.

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

A pipe gives a wise man time to think and a fool something to stick in his mouth.

I begin to suspect that the world is divided not only into the happy and the unhappy, but into those who like happiness and those who, odd as it seems, really don't.

Jewel,' he said, 'what lies before us? Horrible thoughts arise in my heart. If we had died before today we should have been happy.

The modern idea of a Great Man is one who stands at the lonely extremity of some single line of development--