A man who has depths in his shame meets his destiny and his delicate decisions upon paths which few ever reach . . .

A book calls for pen, ink, and a writing desk; today the rule is that pen, ink, and a writing desk call for a book.

The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.

Beggars should be entirely abolished! Truly, it is annoying to give to them and annoying not to give to them.

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.

Well-meaning, helpful, good-natured attitudes of mind have not come to be honored on account of their usefulness, but because they are states of richer souls that are capable of bestowing and have their value in the feeling of the plenitude of life.

How good music and bad reasons sound when one marches against an enemy.