We mark with light in the memory the few interviews we have had with souls that made our souls wiser, that spoke what we thought, that told us what we knew, that gave us leave to be what we inly are.

[A]s if life were a thunder-storm wherein you can see by a flash the horizon, and then cannot see your hand.

True wit never made us laugh.

The most tedious of all discourses are on the subject of the Supreme Being.

The essence of friendship is entireness, a total magnanimity and trust.

Pride ruined the angels.

Every word was once a poem. Every new relation is a new word.