The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.

Many people lose the small joys in the hope for the big happiness.

destructiveness comes only when life isn't lived. People who can live their lives don't destroy themselves.

The body was so little a part of him that its final stillness seemed nothing of importance. He was half out of it anyway and death was only a slipping out of it altogether and being at last what he always was, a spirit. We buried the pearly shell upon the mountain top.

It is difficult not to wonder whether that combination of elements which produces a machine for labor does not create also a soul of sorts, a dull resentful metallic will, which can rebel at times.

What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.

But what happens when her beauty is torn from her like a cover from a book? Will he care to read her then, although her pages speak of nothing but love for him?