Sometimes in our relationship to another human being the proper balance of friendship is restored when we put a few grains of impropriety onto our own side of the scale.

Whoever feels predestined to see and not to believe will find all believers too noisy and pushy: he guards against them.

New ways I go, a new speech comes to me; weary I grow, like all creators, of the old tongues. My spirit no longer wants to walk on worn soles.

The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.

I love him who scattereth golden words in advance of his deeds, and always doeth more than he promiseth: for he seeketh his own down-going.

I can still stand on life's narrowest footing: but who would I be were I to show you this art. Would you like to see a ropedancer?

The rising and falling of the scales of pride and humility sustain the brooding mind as well as the alternations of desire and peace of the soul.