In truth,there was only one christian and he died on the cross.

Not he is great who can alter matter, but he who can alter my state of mind.

It was the sick and decaying who despised the body and earth and invented the heavenly realm and the redemptive drops of blood: but they took even these sweet and gloomy poisons from body and earth. They wanted to escape their own misery, and the stars were too far for them.

We criticize a man or a book most sharply when we sketch out their ideal.

That is an artist as I would have an artist be, modest in his needs: he really wants only two things, his bread and his art--panemet Circen.

Man is more sensitive to the contempt that others feel towards him than to the contempt that he feels towards himself.

Reason" in language - oh, what an old deceptive female she is! I am afraid we are not rid of God because we still have faith in grammar.