Thus it was that in obedience to the law laid down by his mother, and in obedience to the law of that unknown and nameless thing, fear, he kept away from the mouth of the cave.

Strength is an empty shell.

The most beautiful stories always start with wreckage.

The ghostly winter silence had given way to the great spring murmur of awakening life.

It is so much easier to live placidly and complacently. Of course, to live placidly and complacently is not to live at all.

I remembered my days and nights of sunshine and starshine, where life was all a wild sweet wonder, a spiritual paradise of unselfish adventure and ethical romance. And I saw before me, ever blazing and burning, the Holy Grail.

Socialism, when the last word is said, is merely a new economic and political system whereby more men can get food to eat.