Love is photogenic. It needs darkness room to develop

For it is an absurdity to call a country civilized in which a decent and industrious man, laboriously mastering a trade which is valuble and necessary to the common weal, has no assurance that it will sustain him while he stands ready to practice it, or keep him out of the poorhouse when illness or age makes him idle.

Chopin--Two embalmers at work upon a minor poetthe scent of tuberosesAutumn rain.

The chief knowledge that's man on from reading books is the knowledge that very few of them are worth reading.

It is impossible to believe that the same God who permitted His own son to die a bachelor regards celibacy as an actual sin.

Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in their readiness to doubt.

Here is something that the psychologists have so far neglected: the love of ugliness for its own sake, the lust to make the world intolerable. Its habitat is the United States. Out of the melting pot emerges a race which hates beauty as it hates truth.