There is no reason for amazement: surely one always knew that cultures decay, and life's end is death.

There is no reason for amazement: surely one always knew that cultures decay, and life's end is death.

The tides are in our veins.

Cruelty is a part of nature, at least of human nature, but it is the one thing that seems unnatural to us.

Only the drum is confident, it thinks the world has not changed

It seems to me that this whole alone is worthy of the deeper sort of love; and that there is peace, freedom, I might say a kind of salvation, in turning one's affections outward toward this one God, rather than inwards on one's self, or on humanity, or on human imaginations and abstractions - the world of the spirits.

This wild swan of a world is no hunter's game.