Can they feel, I wonder, those white silent people we call the dead?

It is because Humanity has never known where it was going that it has been able to find its way.

I see that any materialism in life coarsens the soul, and that the hunger of the body and the appetites of the flesh desecrate always, and often destroy.

Don't feed the trolls; nothing fuels them so much.

Human life--that appeared to him the one thing worth investigating. Compared to it there was nothing else of any value. It was true that as one watched life in its curious crucible of pain and pleasure, one could not wear over one's face a mask of glass, nor keep the sulphurous fumes from troubling the brain and making the imagination turbid with monstrous fancies and misshapen dreams.

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

When bankers get together they talk about art. When artists get together, they talk about money.