God is like the sun; you cannot look at it, but without it you cannot look at anything else.

Forms of expression always appear turgid to those who do not share the emotions they represent.

In a world flagrant with the failures of civilization, what is there particularly immortal about our own?

When a person has found something which he prefers to life itself, he for the first time has begun to live.

Who would condescend to strike down the mere things that he does not fear? Who would debase himself to be merely brave, like any common prizefighter? Who would stoop to be fearless--like a tree? Fight the thing that you fear. You remember the old tale of the English clergyman who gave the last rites to the brigand of Sicily, and how on his death-bed the great robber said, 'I can give you no money, but I can give you advice for a lifetime: your thumb on the blade, and strike upwards.' So I say to you, strike upwards, if you strike at the stars.

Tea, although an OrientalIs a gentleman at least;Cocoa is a cad and coward,Cocoa is a vulgar beast.

When the chord of monotony is stretched to its tightest, it breaks with the sound of a song.