Giving style” to one’s character - a great and rare art! It is exercised by those who see all the strengths and weaknesses of their own natures and then comprehend them in an artistic plan until everything appears as art and reason and even weakness delights the eye.

How lovely it is that there are words and sounds. Are not words and sounds rainbows and illusive bridges between things which are eternally apart?

If an architect wants to strengthen a decrepit arch, he increases the load laid upon it, for thereby the parts are joined more firmly together.

One does not hate so long as one continues to rate low, but only when one has come to rate equal or higher.

To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.

Man's maturity: to have regained the seriousness that he had as a child at play.

We are terrified by the idea of being terrified.