Is it better to out-monster the monster or to be quietly devoured?

Not their love of humanity, but the impotence of their love, prevents the Christians of today - burning us.

A heart full of courage and cheerfulness needs a little danger from time to time, or the world gets unbearable.

Without art we would be nothing but foreground and live entirely in the spell of that perspective which makes what is closest at hand and most vulgar appear as if it were vast, and reality itself.

He that writeth in blood and proverbs doth not want to be read, but learnt by heart.

People press toward the light not in order to see better but in order to shine better.--We are happy to regard the one before whomwe shine as light.

Precisely the least, the softest, lightest, a lizard's rustling, a breath, a flash, a moment - a little makes the way of the best happiness.