How much larger your life would be if you were smaller in it.

Nothing is so remote from us as the thing which is not old enough to be history and not new enough to be news.

'My country, right or wrong' is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying 'My mother, drunk or sober.'

Passion makes every detail important.

If seeds in the black earth can turn into such beautiful roses, what might not the heart of man become in its long journey toward the stars?

Life is indeed terribly complicated—to a man who has lost his principles.

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.