Why, if it was an illusion, not praise the catastrophe, whatever it was, that destroyed illusion and put truth in it's place?

But I beneath a rougher sea, And whelmed in deeper gulfs than he.

Like most uneducated Englishwomen, I like reading--I like reading books in the bulk.

Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover seeds of truth.

The cold stream of visual impressions failed him now as if the eye were a cup that overflowed and let the rest run down its china walls unrecorded.

The future is dark, which is the best thing the future can be, I think.

It was as if someone had taken a tiny bead of pure life and decking it as lightly as possible with down and feathers, had set it dancing and zigzagging to show us the true nature of life.