“...wanting soul life without the dark, warming intelligence of personal doubt is like expecting an egg without the brooding heat of the mother hen.”
“Without story books is like a person with no soul.”
“A kiss without a moustache, they said then, is like an egg without salt; I will add to it: and it is like Good without Evil.”
“Beauty without intelligence is like a hook without bait.”
“A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.”
“And at last, in its curved and imperceptible fall, the sun sank low, and from glowing white changed to a dull red without rays and without heat, as if about to go out suddenly, stricken to death by the touch of that gloom brooding over a crowd of men.”