“Mind gleams in every atom of the Universe.”

“Falling seemed to take forever as the water slowly rose to meet me. The dome of city hall continued to gleam in the distance, with its golden reflection extending to the river water. Strange that I hadn't seen that before.”

“As their song crescendoed I had the sudden conviction that the world, which I had considered the province of meaningless chances, a mad dance of atoms, was as orderly as the hexagons in the honeycombs I had just crushed into wax and that behind everything, from Helen's weaving to Circe's mountain to Scylla's death, was a subtle pattern, an order of the most compelling lucidity, but hidden from me, a code I could never crack.”

“There is a Passion natural to the Mind of man, especially a free Man, which renders him impatient of Restraint.”

“Do not let the endless succession of small things crowd great ideals out of sight and out of mind.”

“Every book teaches a lesson, even if the lesson is only that one has chosen the wrong book. ”

“Sometimes I discover I have changed my mind because I have forgotten what I used to think.”