The stupendous fact that we stand in the midst of reality will always be something far more wonderful than anything we do.

A drop of honey catches more flies than a hogshead of vinegar.

We treat this world of ours as though we had a spare in the trunk.

It is extraordinary how the house and the simplest possessions of someone who has been left become so quickly sordid. Even the stain on the coffee cup seems not coffee but the physical manifestation of one's inner stain, the fatal blot that from the beginning had marked one for ultimate aloneness.

For a righteous man falls seven times, and rises again.

Song forbids victorious deeds to die.

Gratitude is one of those things that cannot be bought. It must be born with men, or else all the obligations in the world will not create it.

Round broken columns clasping ivy twin'd.

Science without religion is lame; religion without science is blind.

The idea that it is necessary to go to a university in order to become a successful writer . . . is one of those fantasies that surround authorship.

If you had taken off the shoe then, at length you would feel in what part it pinched you.

The word is half his that speaks, and half his that hears it.

There is a garden in her face, Where roses and white lilies blow; A heavenly paradise is that place, Wherein all pleasant fruits do grow. There cherries grow that none may buy, Till cherry ripe themselves do cry.

If there ever was an aviary overstocked with jays it is that Yaptown-on-the-Hudson, call New York. Cosmopolitan they call it, you bet. So's a piece of fly-paper. You listen close when they're buzzing and trying to pull their feet out of the sticky stuff. "Little old New York's good enough for us"--that's what they sing.

The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.

There are times when forgetting can be just as important as remembering- and even more difficult.

He is the freeman whom the truth makes free, And all are slaves besides.

If you are to stand up for your Government you must be able to stand up to your Government.

Evildoers delight in hiding themselves; shun appearing; are bewildered when discovered; being accused, deny; not even when tortured, readily or always confess; certainly mourn when condemned; sum up against themselves, impute either to fate or to the stars the impulses of a wicked mind; for they will not have that to be their own, which they acknowledge to be evil. But what doth the Christian like this? None is ashamed, none repenteth, save that he was not such long ago. If he be marked down, he glorieth; if accused, maketh no defense; being questioned, confesseth even of his own accord; being condemned, giveth thanks. What manner of evil is this, which hath not the natural marks of evil, fear, shame, shrinking, penitence, sorrow? What manner of evil is this, whereof he that is accused rejoiceth?

You'll see that, since our fate is ruled by chance, Each man, unknowing, great, Should frame life so that at some future hour Fact and his dreamings meet.