To the humble man, and to the humble man alone, the sun is really a sun; to the humble man, and to the humble man alone, the sea is really a sea.

Men rush towards complexity, but they yearn towards simplicity. They try to be kings; but they dream of being shepherds.

A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.

Hope means hoping when things are hopeless, or it is no virtue at all. And faith means believing the incredible, or it is no virtue at all.

Time and again, the Faith has to all appearances gone to the dogs. But each time, it was the dog that died.

Man knows that there are in the soul tints more bewildering, more numberless, and more nameless that the colors of an autumn forest....Yet he seriously believes that these things can every one of them , in all their tones and semi-tones, in all their blends and unions, be accurately represented by an arbitrary system of grunts and squeals. He believes that an ordinary civilized stockbroker can really produce out of his own inside noises which denote all the mysteries of memory and all the agonies of desire.

Hope means expectancy when things are otherwise hopeless.