Homer was wrong in saying, "Would that strife might pass away from among gods and men!" He did not see that he was praying for the destruction of the universe.

So long as you don't feel life's paltry and a miserable business, the rest doesn't matter, happiness or unhappiness.

Give up bearing children and bear hope and love and devotion to those already born.

A snake came to my water trough On a hot, hot day, and I in pajamas for the heat, To drink there.

Comes over one an absolute necessity to move. And what is more, to move in some particular direction. A double necessity then: to get on the move, and to know whither.

The novel is the highest example of subtle interrelatedness that man has discovered.

I believe a man is born first unto himself - for the happy developing of himself, while the world is a nursery, and the pretty things are to be snatched for, and pleasant things tasted; some people seem to exist thus right to the end. But most are born again on entering manhood; then they are born to humanity, to a consciousness of all the laughing, and the never-ceasing murmur of pain and sorrow that comes from the terrible multitudes of brothers.