If in the infinite you want to stride, Just walk in the finite to every side.

To know someone here or there with whom you can feel there is understanding in spite of distances or thoughts expressed That can make life a garden.

Mere curiosity adds wings to every step.

Life is the childhood of our immortality.

Man is a simple being, and however rich, varied, and unfathomable he may be, the cycle of his situations is soon run through.

Hatred is partial, but love is still more so.

It is quite beyond me how anyone can believe God speaks to us in books and stories. If the world does not directly reveal to us our relationship to it, if our hearts fail to tell us what we owe ourselves and others, we shall assuredly not learn it from books, which are at best designed but to give names to our errors.