[F]or contemporary judgment does not recognize that much depth of soul is needed to light up the picture drawn from contemptible life and elevate it into a pearl of creation.

But youth has a future. The closer he came to graduation, the more his heart beat. He said to himself: “This is still not life, this is only the preparation for life.

I tell everyone very plainly that I take bribes, but what kind of bribes? Why, greyhound puppies. That's a totally different matter.

The Lord grant we may all be tillers of the soil.

There are people who exist in this world not like entities but like the speckles or spots on something.

I saw that I'd get nowhere on the straight path, and that to go crookedly was straighter.

Let me warn you, if you start chasing after views, you'll be left without bread and without views.