You can't insure against the future, except by really believing in the best bit of you, and in the power beyond it.

I think I am much too valuable a creature to offer myself to a German bullet gratis and for fun.

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

It is our business to go as we are impelled.

God is only a great imaginative experience.

The reaction to any word may be, in an individual, either a mob-reaction or an individual reaction. It is up to the individual to ask himself: Is my reaction individual, or am I merely reacting from my mob-self? When it comes to the so-called obscene words, I should say that hardly one person in a million escapes mob-reaction.

The cosmos is a vast living body, of which we are still parts. The sun is a great heart whose tremors run through our smallest veins. The moon is a great nerve center from which we quiver forever. Who knows the power that Saturn has over us, or Venus? But it is a vital power, rippling exquisitely through us all the time.