Authors and uncaptured criminals are the only people free from routine.
Life is a loom, weaving illusion.
You can't crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them.
How can we help students to understand that the tragedy of life is not death; the tragedy is to die with commitments undefined and convictions undeclared and service unfulfilled?
Never be a cynic, even a gentle one. Never help out a sneer, even at the devil.
I think on death as the apparent end of the illusions that encompass us. They all have a sudden and unexpected end, that challenges any faith we have pinned to their worth.