A perfect faith would lift us absolutely above fear

It is only by loving a thing that you can make it yours.

It may be an infinitely less evil to murder a man than to refuse to forgive him. The former may be the act of a moment of passion: the latter is the heart’s choice.

Books are but dead bodies to you, and a library nothing but a catacomb!

The seed dies into a new life, and so does man.

Then the Old Man of the Earth stooped over the floor of the cave, raised a huge stone from it, and left it leaning. It disclosed a great hole that went plumb-down. "That is the way," he said. "But there are no stairs." "You must throw yourself in. There is no other way.

To try to be brave is to be brave.