Was it doubted that those who corrupt their own bodies conceal themselves?

The process of reading is not a half sleep, but in the highest sense, an exercise, a gymnast's struggle: that the reader is to do something for him or herself, must be on the alert, just construct indeed the poem, argument, history, metaphysical essay--the text furnishing the hints, the clue, the start, the framework.

I have heard what the talkers were talking, the talk of the beginning and the end, But I do not talk of the beginning or the end.

I like the scientific spirit-the holding off, the being sure but not too sure, the willingness to surrender ideas when the evidence is against them: this is ultimately fine-it always keeps the way beyond open.

A man can be a hero in any profession

When one reaches out to help another he touches the face of God.

The ecstasy is so short but the forgetting is so long.