They were conquerors, and for that you want only brute force--nothing to boast of, when you have it, since your strength is just an accident arising from the weakness of others.

I remember my youth and the feeling that will never come back any more /the feeling that I could last for ever, outlast the sea, the earth, and all men; the deceitful feeling that lures us on to joys, to perils, to love, to vain effort /to death; the triumphant conviction of strength, the heat of life in the handful of dust, the glow in the heart that with every year grows dim, grows cold, grows small, and expires /and expires, too soon, too soon /before life itself

The ethical view of the universe involves us in so many cruel and absurd contradictions that I have come to suspect that the aim of creation cannot be ethical at all.

It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on this earth.

A task, any task, undertaken in an adventurous spirit acquires the merit of romance.

The true peace of God begins at any spot a thousand miles from the nearest land.

One can't live with one's finger everlastingly on one's pulse.