I don't pretend to understand the Universe - it's a great deal bigger than I am.

If a book comes from the heart, it will contrive to reach other hearts; all art and author-craft are of small amount to that.

The meaning of song goes deep. Who in logical words can explain the effect music has on us? A kind of inarticulate, unfathomable speech, which leads us to the edge of the infinite, and lets us for a moment gaze into that!

Contented saturnine human figures, a dozen or so of them, sitting around a large long table...Perfect equality is to be the rule; no rising or notice taken when anybody enters or leaves. Let the entering man take his place and pipe, without obligatory remarks; if he cannot smoke...let him at least affect to do so, and not ruffle the established stream of things.

There is but one thing without honor, smitten with eternal barrenness, inability to do or to be,-insincerity, unbelief.

Perfect ignorance is quiet, perfect knowledge is quiet; not so the transition from the former to the latter.

Out of the lowest depths there is a path to the loftiest heights.