With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.

The modernness of all good books seems to give men an existence as wide as man.

A man of thought must feel the thought that is parent of the universe: that the masses of nature do undulate and flow.

The only thing that can grow is the thing you give energy to.

Sleep lingers all our lifetime about our eyes, as night hovers all day in the boughs of the fir-tree.

The soul is not born; it does not die; it was not produced from anyone… Unborn, eternal, it is not slain, though the body is slain.

A seashell should be the crest of England, not only because it represents a power built on the waves, but also the hard finish ofthe men. The Englishman is finished like a cowry or a murex.