Great Throughts Treasury

"There comes no adventure but wears to our soul the shape of our everyday thoughts."

"There is a courage of happiness as well as a courage of sorrow."

"There is no other means of escaping from one's consciousness than to deny it, to look upon it as an organic disease of the terrestrial intelligence - a disease which we must endeavor to cure by an action which must appear to us an action of violent and willful madness, but which, on the other side of our appearances, is probably an action of health."

"They believe that nothing will happen because they have closed their doors."

"To be happy is only to have freed one's soul from the unrest of unhappiness."

"We are alone, absolutely alone on this chance planet: and, amid all the forms of life that surround us, not one, excepting the dog, has made an alliance with us."

"We are never the same with others as when we are alone. We are different, even when we are in the dark with them."

"You know, my brothers, the nature of our business. The child you see before you, thanks to a talisman stolen from the powers of Earth, is able to take possession of the Blue Bird and thus to snatch from us the secret which we have kept since the origin of life... Now we know enough of Man to entertain no doubt as to the fate which he reserves for us once he is in possession of this secret. That is why it seems to me that any hesitation would be both foolish and criminal... It is a serious moment; the child must be done away with before it is too late..."