In every grain of wheat there lies hidden the soul of a star.

Every branch of human knowledge, if traced up to its source and final principles, vanishes into mystery.

We lead two lives, and the half of our soul is madness, and half heaven is lit by a black sun. I say I am a man, is the other that hides in me?

I dream in fire but work in clay.

It was better, he thought, to fail in attempting exquisite things than to succeed in the department of the utterly contemptible.

Old stories often turn out to be true.

If a man dreams that he has committed a sin before which the sun hid his face, it is often safe to conjecture that, in sheer forgetfulness, he wore a red tie, or brown boots with evening dress.

There are strange things lost and forgotten in obscure corners of the newspaper.

silence is not weakness and decency is not pride

The saint endeavors to recover a gift which he has lost; the sinner tries to obtain something which was never his. In brief, he repeats the Fall.

Now, everybody, I suppose, is aware that in recent years the silly business of divination by dreams has ceased to be a joke and has become a very serious science.

We fail even if we do our best, because our best is someone else’s good.

The fragrance of the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.

What unites all beings is their desire for happiness.

When a man has just been greatly honored and has eaten a little he is the most generous.

It certainly strikes the beholder with astonishment, to perceive what vast difficulties can be overcome by the pigmy arms of little mortal man, aided by science and directed by superior skill.

A law is not a law without coercion behind it.

Government stimulates the democrat party.

Bad leaders believe that they have to project control at all times.

If you know you don't have a win, then there's no use for you being in the game.

If everyone could learn that what is right for me does not make it right for anyone else, the world would be a much happier place.