The gray paint peels off the wall in odd and beautiful patterns, each cracked polygon of paint a snowflake of decay.

So overjoyed were they at their deliverance that they laughed aloud, and the Earth seemed to them like a flower of silver, and the Moon like a flower of gold.

A teacher is a sower of seed, a spiritual agriculturist, while he who teaches himself is the wise farmer of his own mental plot.

What one exorcises in this [imagery] way at little cost, and for the price of a few tears, will never in effect be reproduced