Reality in strong doses frightens.

...It all seemed to him to have disappeared as if behind a curtain at a theater. There are such curtains that drop in life. God is moving on to the next act.

Where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incident, chaos will soon reign.

The need of the immaterial is the most deeply rooted of all needs. One must have bread; but before bread, one must have the ideal.

Genius is rare because the means of becoming one have not been available

Caution is the eldest child of wisdom.

He reached for his pocket, and found there, only reality