“A writing may be lost; a lie may be written; but what the eye has seen is truth and remains in the mind!”

“The wicked people were gone, but fear remained.Fear always remains. A man may destroy everything within himself, love and hate and belief, and even doubt; but as long as he clings to life the cannot destroy fear: the fear, subtle, indestructible, and terrible, that pervades his being; that tinges his thoughts; that lurks in his heart; what watches on his lips the struggle of his last breath.”

“It’s extraordinary how we go through life with eyes half shut, with dull ears, with dormant thoughts. Perhaps it’s just as well; and it may be that it is this very dullness that makes life to the incalculable majority so supportable and so welcome.”

“We live in the flicker - may it last as long as the old earth keeps rolling!”

“Even extreme grief may ultimately ventitself in violence--but more generally takes the form of apathy”

“I can't afford to despise anything. An absurdity may be the starting-point of the most dangerous complications.”

“We live in the flicker -- may it last as long as the old earth keeps rolling! But darkness was here yesterday.”