It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous.

People are much too solemn about things - I'm all for sticking pins into episcopal behinds.

To see ourselves as others see us is a most salutary gift. Hardly less important is the capacity to see others as they see themselves.

Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of great sculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves.

That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent.

Several excuses are always less convincing than one.

"Our kingdom go" is the necessary and unavoidable corollary of 'Thy kingdom come.' For the more there is self, the less there is of God. The divine eternal fulness of life can be gained only by those who have deliberately lost the partial, separative life of craving and self-interest, of egocentric thinking, feeling, wishing, and acting.