We must not think of the things we could do with, but only of the things that we can't do without.

It's really extraordinary what a variety of ways of loving there must be. We all do it as it was never done before.

There may be a better land where bicycle saddles are made of rainbow, stuffed with cloud; in this world the simplest thing is to get used to something hard.

Man, if he would live, must worship. He looks around, and what to him, within the vision of his life, is the greatest and the best, that he falls down and does reverence to.

Life will always remain a gamble, with prizes sometimes for the imprudent, and blanks so often to the wise.

The shy man does have some slight revenge upon society for the torture it inflicts upon him.

(Speaking of the Cistercian monks) A grim fraternity, passing grim lives in that sweet spot, that God had made so bright! Strange that Nature's voices all around them--the soft singing of the waters, the wisperings of the river grass, the music of the rushing wind--should not have taught them a truer meaning of life than this. They listened there, through the long days, in silence, waiting for a voice from heaven; and all day long and through the solemn night it spoke to them in myriad tones, and they heard it not.