Everybody has noticed the way cats stop and loiter in a half-open door. Hasn't everyone said to a cat: For heavens sake why don't you come in? With opportunity half-open in front of them, there are men who have a similar tendency to remain undecided between two solutions, at the risk of being crushed by fate abruptly closing the opportunity. The overprudent, cats as they are, and because they are cats, sometimes run more danger than the bold

The repose of darkness is deeper on the water than on the land.

When two mouths, made sacred by love, draw near to each other to create, it is impossible, that above that ineffable kiss there should not be a thrill in the immense mystery of the stars.

Dirt has been shrewdly termed "misplaced material.

Oh! Everything I loved!

What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!

What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.