[B]ut he had lived in a world in which, as he said, no one who loved ideas need hunger mentally.

True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.

How I hate everything!

Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death.

Staunch & faithful little lovers that they are, they give back a hundred fold every sign of love one ever gives them — & it mitigates the pang of losing them to know how very happy a little affection has made them .

My little dog - a heartbeat at my feet.

There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.