Everything has an end, if only you live long enough to see it..

And now let us love and take that which is given us, and be happy; for in the grave there is no love and no warmth, nor any touching of the lips. Not….

There are things and there are faces which, when felt or seen for the first time, stamp themselves upon the mind like a sun image on a sensitized pla….

We were like confirmed opium-eaters: in our moments of reason we well knew the deadly nature of our pursuit, but we certainly were not prepared to ab….

Men and women, empires and cities, thrones, principalities, and powers, mountains, rivers, and unfathomed seas, worlds, spaces, and universes, all ha….

There is no such things as magic, though there is such a thing as knowledge of the hidden ways of Nature..

Truly the universe is full of ghosts, not sheeted churchyard spectres, but the inextinguishable elements of individual life, which having once been, ….

Truly time should be measured by events, and not by the lapse of hours..

How can a world be good in which Money is the moving power, and Self-interest the guiding star?.

Man's cleverness is almost indefinite, and stretches like an elastic band, but human nature is like an iron ring. You can go round and round it, you ….

It is a well-known fact that very often, putting the period of boyhood out of the argument, the older we grow the more cynical and hardened we become….

Wealth is good, and if it comes our way we will take it; but a gentleman does not sell himself for wealth..

Yea, all things live forever, though at times they sleep and are forgotten..

That which is alive hath known death, and that which is dead can never die, for in the Circle of the Spirit life is naught and death is naught. Yea, ….

The sky aft was dark as pitch, but the moon still shone brightly ahead of us and lit up the blackness. Beneath its sheen a huge white-topped breaker,….

It is far. But there is no journey upon this earth that a man may not make if he sets his heart to it. There is nothing, Umbopa, that he cannot do, t….

Man doeth this and doeth that from the good or evil of his heart; but he knows not to what end his sense doth prompt him; for when he strikes he is b….

Time after time have nations, ay, and rich and strong nations, learned in the arts, been, and passed away to be forgotten, so that no memory of them ….

It is curious to look back and realize upon what trivial and apparently coincidental circumstances great events frequently turn as easily and natural….

The great wheel of Fate rolls on like a Juggernaut, and crushes us all in turn, some soon, some late.

Thinking can only serve to measure out the helplessness of thought..