I agree about Shaw - he is haunted by the mystery he flouts. He is an atheist who trembles in the haunted corridor.

It was my first meeting with a philosophy that confirmed my vague speculations and seemed at once logical and boundless.

How can I, that girl standing there, My attention fix On Roman or on Russian Or on Spanish politics?

One should say before sleeping: I have lived many lives. I have been a slave and a prince. Many a beloved has sat upon my knee and I have sat upon the knees of many a beloved. Everything that has been shall be again.

There is no deformity But saves us from a dream.

And God stands winding His lonely horn, And time and the world are ever in flight.

A sea captain when he stands upon the bridge, or looks out from his deck-house, thinks much about God and about the world. Away in the valley yonder among the corn and the poppies men may well forget all things except the warmth of the sun upon the face, and the kind shadow under the hedge; but he who journeys through storm and darkness must needs think and think.