We couldn't understand because we were too far... and could not remember because we were traveling in the night of first ages, those ages that had gone, leaving hardly a sign... and no memories.

Your strength is just an accident owed to the weakness of others.

I do not know whether I have been a good seaman, but I know I have been a very faithful one.

The artist appeals to that part of our being which is not dependent on wisdom; to that in us which is a gift and not an acquisition-and therefore, more permanently enduring. He speaks to our capacity for delight and wonder, to the sense of mystery surrounding our lives; to our sense of pity, and beauty and pain.

It made you feel very small, very lost, and yet it was not altogether depressing, that feeling. After all, if you were small, the grimy beetle crawled on - which was just what you wanted it to do.

All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.

Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys.