The world owes its enchantment to these curious creatures and their fancies; but its multiple complicity rejects them. Thistledown spirits, tragic, heartrending in their evanescence, they must go blowing headlong to perdition.
Fight any instinct to be humorless, for humorlessness is the worst of all absurdities.
The ability to laugh heartily is the sign of a healthy soul.
The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house.
It was the East that should have sent us missionaries.
After the writer's death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.