...our enjoyment of the great works of literature depends more upon the depth of our sympathy than upon our understanding.

The breakage and agony rending us today will be our salvation if they drive us by new routes to meet it. No one can proxy for us a masterpiece of loving or experience for us the rapture of art or launch for us book ships freighted with sweet bread to strengthen man. As of old we must be our own seers, musicians and explorers, and to an extent vaster than ever before.

There is no better way to thank God for your sight than by giving a helping hand to someone in the dark.

I have found out that though the ways in which I can make myself useful are few, yet the work open to me is endless.

Happiness rarely keeps company with an empty stomach

Better to be blind and see with your heart, than to have two good eyes and see nothing.

Masculine exhalations are, as a rule, stronger, more vivid,more widely differentiated than those of women. In the odor of young men there is something elemental, as of fire, storm, and salt sea. It pulsates with buoyancy and desire. It suggests all the things strong and beautiful and joyous and gives me a sense of physical happiness.