All men are just accumulations dolls stuffed with sawdust swept up from the trash heaps where all previous dolls had been thrown away.

He made the earth first and peopled it with dumb creatures, and then He created man to be His overseer on the earth and to hold suzerainty over the earth and the animals on it in His name, not to hold for himself and his descendants inviolable title forever, generation after generation, to the oblongs and squares of the earth, but to hold the earth mutual and intact in the communal anonymity of brotherhood, and all the fee He asked was pity and humility and sufferance and endurance and the sweat of has face for bread.

So vast, so limitless in capacity is man's imagination to disperse and burn away the rubble-dross of fact and probability, leaving only truth and dream.

The books I read are the ones I knew and loved when I was a young man and to which I return as you do to old friends.

A man's moral conscience is the curse he had to accept from the gods in order to gain from them the right to dream.

The salvation of the world is in man's suffering.

It is not proof that I sought. I, of all men, know that proof is but a fallacy invented by man to justify to himself and his fellows his own crass lust and folly.

It is the writer's privilege to help man endure by lifting his heart.

To the man grown the long crowded mile of his boyhood becomes less than the throw of a stone.