Phychical pain is more easily borne than physical; and if I had my choice between a bad conscience and a bad tooth, I should choose the former.

Wild, dark times are rumbling toward us, and the prophet who wishes to write a new apocalypse will have to invent entirely new beasts, and beasts so terrible that the ancient animal symbols of St. John will seem like cooing doves and cupids in comparison.

Thought precedes action as lighting does thunder.

Oh, they loved dearly: their souls kissed, they kissed with their eyes, they were both but one single kiss.

The fountain of love is the rose and the lily, the sun and the dove.

Human misery is too great for men to die without faith.

I fell asleep reading a dull book and dreamed I kept on reading, so I awoke from sheer boredom.