It was then that the ecstasy and the dream began, in which emotion was the matter of the universe, and matter but an adventitious intrusion likely to hinder you from spinning where you wanted to spin.

The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job.

It is rarely that the pleasures of the imagination will compensate for the pain of sleeplessness.

I shall do one thing in this life-one thing certain-this is, love you, and long of you, and keep wanting you till I die.

Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.

Let me enjoy the earth no less because the all-enacting light that fashioned forth its loveliness had other aims than my delight.

Indifference to fate which, though it often makes a villain of a man, is the basis of his sublimity when it does not.