We do not fear being called meticulous, inclining as we do to the view that only the exhaustive can be truly interesting.
It is remarkable how, in the midst of what is known as the 'grayness' of daily life, flashes of beauty in persons, in things, in nature, sustain the spirit and make it glad.
An art whose medium is language, and whose structure is self-conscious and logical, cannot be politically conservative.
Speech is civilization itself. The word, even the most contradictory word, preserves contact—it is silence which isolates.
Freedom demands initiative, courage, the need to decide what life is to be, which it demands from the individual and from nations.
Knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge—broad, deep knowledge—is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low.
Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year.
The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life; to regard it, with the understanding and the emotions, as the inviolable condition of life.
What a wonderful phenomenon it is, carefully considered, when the human eye, that jewel of organic structures, concentrates its moist brilliance on another human creature!
