Do not ask the name of the person who seeks a bed for the night. He who is reluctant to give his name is the one who most needs sh...elter.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Superstition, bigotry and prejudice, ghosts though they are, cling tenaciously to life; they are shades armed with tooth and claw.... They must be grappled with unceasingly, for it is a fateful part of human destiny that it is condemned to wage perpetual war against ghosts. A shade is not easily taken by the throat and destroyed.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Thought is the work of the intellect, reverie is its self-indulgence. To substitute day-dreaming for thought is to confuse a poiso...n with a source of nourishment.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
France is a people of the same quality as Greece and Italy. She is Athenian in beauty and Roman in grandeur. Moreover, she is gene...rous. She gives herself. More often than other peoples, she knows the mood of devotion and sacrifice. But it is a mood that comes and goes; and this is the great danger for those who seek to run when she is content to walk, and to walk when she wishes to stay still. France has her relapses into materialism, and at certain moments the ideas which obstruct the working of her splendid mind contain nothing that recalls her greatness but are rather of the dimensions of Missouri or some other southern state. What can be done about it? The giantess plays the dwarf; great France has her fantasies of smallness. That is all.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. ...The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »