Solitude has soft, silky hands, but with strong fingers it grasps the heart and makes it ache with sorrow.

Yesterday was a beautiful tune on the lips of life and today is a silent secret.

You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect.

A gentle soul is spiritual.

The history of the world begins with a seed. The seed is the kernel of what you are, but it is also the promise of what you can become.

It is not good to have an oar in everyone's boat.

Wisdom consists in rising superior both to madness and to common sense, and is lending oneself to the universal illusion without becoming its dupe.

This book, conceived in sorrow, composed in grief, and constructed at the brink of despair, contains my mind's best thoughts, and my soul's triumph over the powers of darkness.

Let every head of household see to it that he has on hand enough food and clothing and, where possible, fuel also for at least a year ahead.

What would it matter if, for the sake of the Christian Church, one were to tell a big lie?

Now I know why guys like to hug girls. You guys just want to cop a feel. I can't believe that I've fallen for it all these years!

Man, it is not thy works, which are mortal, infinitely little, and the greatest no greater than the least, but only the spirit thou workest in, that can have worth or continuance.