Be careful, then, and be gentle about death. For it is hard to die, it is difficult to go through the door, even when it opens.

When I hear modern people complain of being lonely then I know what has happened. They have lost the cosmos.

They say the sea is cold, but the sea contains the hottest blood of all, and the wildest, the most urgent.

When I wish I was rich, then I know I am ill.

A house o' women is as dead as a house wi' no fire, to my thinkin'. I'm not a spider as likes to corner myself. I like a man about, if he's only something to snap at.

A man has no religion who has not slowly and painfully gathered one together, adding to it, shaping it; and one's religion is never complete and final, it seems, but must always be undergoing modification.

The dead don't die. They look on and help.