To approach the stranger is to invite the unexpected, release a new force, let the genie out of the bottle. It is to start a new train of events that is beyond your control.

The majority of mankind is lazyminded, incurious, absorbed in vanities, and tepid in emotion, and is therefore incapable of either much doubt or much faith.

The naming of cats is a difficult matter

The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

Between the conception and the creation, between the emotion and the response, Falls the shadow.

A good deal of confusion could be avoided, if we refrained from setting before the group, what can be the aim only of the individual; and before society as a whole, what can be the aim only of the group.

You will find that you survive humiliation. And that's an experience of incalculable value.