The spirit of sarcasm lives and thrives in the midst of universal wreck; its balls are enchanted and itself invulnerable, and it braves retaliations and reprisals because itself is a mere flash, a bodiless and magical nothing.

Every life is a profession of faith, and exercises an inevitable and silent influence.

I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.

When everything is in its right place within us, we ourselves are in balance with the whole work of God.

To repel one's cross is to make it heavier.

If nationality is consent, the state is compulsion.

Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.