Thus men will lie on their backs, talking about the fall of man, and never make an effort to get up.

I want the flower and fruit of a man; that some fragrance be wafted over from him to me, and some ripeness flavor our intercourse.

I hate the present modes of living and getting a living. Farming and shopkeeping and working at a trade or profession are all odious to me. I should relish getting my living in a simple, primitive fashion.

The meeting of two eternities, the past and future....is precisely the present moment.

Perfect sincerity and transparency make a great part of beauty, as in dewdrops, lakes, and diamonds.

Amid a world of noisy, shallow actors it is noble to stand aside and say, 'I will simply be.

Perhaps the facts most astounding and most real are never communicated by man to man.