You said they had found the secret of happiness because they had never heard that love can be a sin.

Man's loneliness is but his fear of life.

I have had my dance with Folly, nor do I shirk the blame; I have sipped the so-called Wine of Life and paid the price of shame; But I know that I shall find surcease, the rest my spirit craves, Where the rainbows play in the flying spray, 'Mid the keen salt kiss of the waves.

Life is perhaps best regarded as a bad dream between two awakenings.

Suppose I was to tell you that it's just beauty that's calling me, the beauty of the far off and unknown, the mystery and spell which lures me, the need of freedom of great wide spaces, the joy of wandering on and on----in quest of the secret which is hidden over there----beyond the horizon?

God gave us mouths that close and ears that don't... that should tell us something.

We need above all to learn again to believe in the possibility of nobility of spirit in ourselves.