It seems to me to be true that heavens are placed in the sky because it is the unreachable. The unreachable and therefore the unknowable always seems divine--hence, religion. People need religion because the great masses fear life and its consequences. Its responsibilities weigh heavy. Feeling a weakness in the face of great forces, men seek an alliance with omnipotence to bolster up their feeling of weakness, even though the omnipotence they rely upon is a creature of their own minds. It gives them a feeling of security.

Friendship is a mysterious and ocean-bottom thing. Who can know the outer ranges of it? Perhaps no human being has ever explored its limits.

It was a weak spot in any nation to have a large body of disaffected people within its confusion.

Gods always behave like the people who make them.

Magic is older than writing. So nobody knows how it started.

Once you wake up thought in a man, you can never put it to sleep again.

Oh to be a pear tree – any tree in bloom! With kissing bees singing of the beginning of the world!