Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning.

Art is the nearest thing to life; it is a mode of amplifying experience and extending our contact with our fellow men beyond the bounds of our personal lot.

Say "I love you" to those you love. The eternal silence is long enough to be silent in, and that awaits us all.

Death was not to be a leap: it was to be a long descent under thickening shadows.

We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.

The sense of an entailed disadvantage - the deformed foot doubtfully hidden by the shoe, makes a restlessly active spiritual yeast, and easily turns a self-centered, unloving nature into an Ishmaelite.

Love has a way of cheating itself consciously, like a child who plays at solitary hide-and-seek; it is pleased with assurances that it all the while disbelieves.