There is a principle which is the basis of things, which all speech aims to say, and all action to evolve, a simple, quiet, undescribed, undescribable presence, dwelling very peacefully in us, our rightful lord: we are not to do, but to let do; not to work, but to be worked upon.

I am constrained every moment to acknowledge a higher origin for events than the will I call mine.

It is the ignorant and childish part of mankind that is the fighting part. Idle and vacant minds want excitement

There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book we read becomes luminous with manifold allusion. Every sentence is doubly significant, and the sense of our author is as broad as the world.

Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.

The man in the street does not know a star in the sky.

Few people have any next, they live from hand to mouth without a plan, and are always at the end of their line.