Do not move, do not go. Sink within this moment. Hold it for ever.

To sit and contemplate - to remember the faces of women without desire, to be pleased by the great deeds of men without envy, to be everything and everywhere in sympathy and yet content to remain where and what you are.

Let us record the atoms as they fall upon the mind in the order in which they fall.

Of course, literature is the only spiritual and humane career. Even painting tends to dumness, and music turns people erotic, whereas the more you write the nicer you become.

What a comfort is friendship in this world.

For beyond the difficulty of communicating oneself, there is the supreme difficulty of being oneself.

I like people to be unhappy because I like them to have souls.