Man learned to resort to the dance when he felt helpless or fragmentary, when he felt dislocated in his universe.

The real wonder is not that one man should be a genius, but that every man should not be.

Nothing the desert produces expresses it better than the unhappy growth of the tree yuccas

Some think that even the ancients who lived long before the present generation, and first framed accounts of the Gods, had a similar view of nature; for they made the Oceanus and Tethys the parents of creation, and described the oath of the Gods as being by water, to which they give the name of Styx; for what is oldest is most honourable, and the most honourable thing is that by which one swears

Life set itself to new processions of seed-time and harvest, the skin newly turned to seasonal variations, the very blood humming to new altitudes.

No man can be stronger than his destiny.

It is always so much easier to be moral than it is to be spiritual.