The birds looked upon me as nothing but a man, quite a trifling creature without wings-and they would have nothing to do with me. Were it not so I would build a small cabin for myself among their crowd of nests and pass my days counting the sea waves.

My eyes have seen much, but they are not weary. My ears have heard much, but they thirst for more.

For the current of our spiritual life creeds, rituals and channels that may thwart or help, according to their fixity or openness. When a symbol or spiritual idea becomes rigidly elaborate in its construction, it supplants the idea which it should support.

Pessimism is a form of mental dipsomania; it disdains healthy nourishment, indulges in the strong drink of denunciation, and creates an artificial dejection which thirsts for a stronger draught.

The hours trip rapidly away, hiding their dreams in their skirts.

that which is eternal within the moment only becomes shallow if spread out in time.

Other animals ran only when they had a reason, but the horse would run for no reason whatever, as if to run out of his own skin