"I said, 'I think God is in the air.' My teacher said, 'Yes, and in the water, and in the earth, and in you.'"

"One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar."

"The chief delight of the senses is in the perception of beauty."

"Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it."

"Blindness and deafness are not the worst misfortunes. The worst misfortune is to have eyes and ears, and not to see and hear."