If I am going to spend eternity visiting this moment and that, I'm grateful that so many of those moments are nice.

The most heartbreakingly beautiful girl I ever hope to see

The Summer had died peacefully in its sleep, and Autumn, as soft-spoken executrix, was locking life up safely until Spring came to claim it.

Suicide is the punctuation mark at the end of many artistic careers

I think that scientific persons of the future will scoff at scientific persons of the present. They will scoff because scientific persons of the present thought so many important things were superstitious.

I say the same thing about the death of James Wait. "Oh, well -- he wasn't going to write the Beethoven's Ninth Symphony anyway.

People don't come to church for preachments, of course, but to daydream about God.