Hang ideas! They are tramps, vagabonds, knocking at the back-door of your mind, each taking a little of your substance, each carrying away some crumb of that belief in a few simple notions you must cling to if you want to live decently and would like to die easy!

Lights of ships moved in the fairway-a great stir of lights going up and going down. And farther west on the upper reaches the place of the monstrous town was still marked ominously on the sky, a brooding gloom in sunshine, a lurid glare under the stars.

The end (goal) of art is to figure the hidden meaning of things and not their appearance; for in this profound truth lies their true reality, which does not appear in their external outlines.

the mind of man is capable of anything--because everything is in it, all the past as well as the future

A certain simplicity of thought is common to serene souls at both ends of the social scale.

The question is not how to get cured, but how to live.

I am a great foe of favoritism in public life, in private life, and even in the delicate relationship of an author to his works.