The same common sense which makes an author write good things, makes him dread they are not good enough to deserve reading.
It's when the thing itself is missing that you have to supply the word.
Happiness writes in white ink on a white page.
A single nation that has succeeded in lowering the intelligence, the morality, the quality of the human race almost throughout the globe is a phenomenon never before experienced since the beginning of time. I accuse the United States of being in a constant state of crime against humanity.
Catholicism has made man stupid, but it has not degraded him; it has introduced as many good and beautiful things as bad things. The United States have simply degraded humanity. Catholicism has done less harm in two thousand years than the United States in two hundred.
I have only the idea I have made of myself to sustain me on oceans of nothingness
Most affections are habits or duties we lack the courage to end.
Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point.
I lay off a lot modern fiction and only rely on living writers for non-fiction work.
Dance like nobody's watching.
Never give children a chance of imagining that anything exists in isolation. Make it plain from the very beginning that all living is relationship. Show them relationships in the woods, in the fields, in the ponds and streams, in the village and in the country around it. Rub it in.