My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind - intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.

Try to find your deepest issue in every confusion, and abide by that.

You live by what you thrill to, and there's the end of it.

The grim frost is at hand, when apples will fall thick, almost thunderous, on the hardened earth.

Sing then the core of dark and absolute oblivion where the soul at last is lost in utter peace.

Gods die with men who have conceived them. But the god-stuff roars eternally, like the sea, with too vast a sound to be heard.

For {she} had adopted the standard of the young: what there was in the moment was everything. And moments followed one another without necessarily belonging to one another.