Think of all those ages through which men have had the courage to die, and then remember that we have actually fallen to talking about having the courage to live.

It is the chief value of legend to mix up the centuries while preserving the sentiment.

Our society is so abnormal that the normal man never dreams of having the normal occupation of looking after his own property. When he chooses a trade, he chooses one of the ten thousand trades that involve looking after other people's property.

A naked moon stood in a naked sky.

'As you have made your bed, so you must lie on it'; which again is simply a lie. If I have made my bed uncomfortable, please God I will make it again.

There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect. Men do not quarrel about the meaning of sunsets; they never dispute that the hawthorn says the best and wittiest thing about the spring.

Man is at his tallest when he bows.