Even a bad shot is dignified when he accepts a duel.
The original quality in any man of imagination is imagery.
We need to be reminded more than we need to be instructed
Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.
A cosmic philosophy is not constructed to fit a man; a cosmic philosophy is constructed to fit a cosmos. A man can no more possess a private religion than he can possess a private sun and moon.
Even in an empire of atheists the dead man is always sacred.