Life is never what one dreams. It is seldom what one desires, but for the vital spirit and the eager mind, the future will always hold the search for buried treasure and the possibility of high adventure.

The things I feared were not in the sky, but in the nature and in the touch of humanity. The cruelty of children . . . the blindness of the unpitiful - these were my terrors. But not the crash of thunder overhead, not the bolts of fire from the clouds.

Passion alone could destroy passion. All the thinking in the world could not make so much as a dent in its surface.

I am inclined to believe that a man may be free to do anything he pleases if only he will accept responsibility for whatever he does.

... the ordinary is simply the universal observed from the surface, that the direct approach to reality is not without, but within. Touch life anywhereand you will touch universality wherever you touch the earth.

[Reformers] might be classified as a distinct species having eyes in the back of their heads.

Evidently, whatever else marriage might prevent, it was not a remedy for isolation of spirit.