Surely one of the peculiar habits of circumstances is the way they follow, in their eternal recurrence, a single course. If an event happens once in a life, it may be depended upon to repeat later its general design.

It was a perfect spring afternoon, and the air was filled with vague, roving scents, as if the earth exhaled the sweetness of hidden flowers.

To teach one's self is to be forced to learn twice.

Many of the men who had come to the wilderness to practice religion appeared to have forgotten its true nature.

Conscience represents a fetich to which good people sacrifice their own happiness, bad people their neighbors'.

Women are one of the Almighty's enigmas to prove to men that He knows more than they do.

Insolent youth rides, now, in the whirlwind. For those modern iconoclasts who are without culture possess, apparently, all the courage.