Those old stories of visions and dreams guiding men have their truth; we are saved by making the future present to ourselves.

There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

Kisses honeyed by oblivion.

I would not creep along the coast but steer Out in mid-sea, by guidance of the stars.

A perverted moral judgment belongs to the dogmatic system.

I shall be so glad if you will tell me what to read. I have been looking into all the books in the library at Offendene, but there is nothing readable. The leaves all stick together and smell musty. I wish I could write books to amuse myself, as you can! How delightful it must be to write books after one's own taste instead of reading other people's! Home-made books must be so nice.

Enveloped in a common mist, we seem to walk in clearness ourselves, and behold only the mist that enshrouds others.