Literature could be said to be a sort of disciplined technique for arousing certain emotions.

There is a spider called Amaurobius, which lives in a burrow and has its young in the late summer, and then it dies when the frosts begin, and the young spiders live through the cold by eating their mother's dead body. One can't believe that's an accident. I don't know that I imagined God as having thought it all out, but somehow He was connected with the pattern, He was the pattern.

Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

The priesthood is a marriage. People often start by falling in love, and they go on for years without realizing that love must change into some other love which is so unlike it that it can hardly be recognized as love at all.

The bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man.

Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.

One doesn't have to get anywhere in a marriage. It's not a public conveyance.