When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality.
The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys.
One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.
Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.
Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.