People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.

Also, he was smoking a cigar, and when a man is smoking a cigar, wearing a hat, he has an advantage; it is harder to find out how he feels.

The best and purest human beings, from the beginning of time, have understood that life is sacred.

... unless you made your life a turning point, there was no reason for existing.

Do we always, always to the point of misery, do a thing?

The soul has to find and hold its ground against hostile forces, sometimes embodied in ideas which frequently deny its very existence, and which indeed often seem to be trying to annul it altogether.

All human accomplishment has this same origin, identically. Imagination is a force of nature. Is this not enough to make a person full of ecstasy? Imagination, imagination, imagination! It converts to actual. It sustains, it alters, it redeems!