What is there of the divine in a load of brick? What ... in a barber shop? ... Much. All.
The subject is said to have the property of making dull men eloquent.
Deep insight will always, like Nature, ultimate its thought in a thing.
You can take better care of your secret than another can.
We live amid surfaces, and the true art of life is to skate well on them
We are like travellers using the cinders of a volcano to roast their eggs. Whilst we see that it always stands ready to clothe what we would say, we cannot avoid the question whether the characters are not significant of themselves.