The pleasure of doing a thing in the same way at the same time every day, and savoring it, should be noted.

A man of sixty has spent twenty years in bed and over three years in eating.

You can turn over a new leaf every hour
if you choose.

Every scene, even the commonest, is wonderful, if only one can detach oneself, casting off all memory of use and custom and behold it, as it were, for the first time.

During a long and varied career as a bachelor, dear spouse [mock platform manner], I have noticed that marriage is usually the death of politeness between a man and a woman.

The makers of literature are those who have seen and felt the miraculous interestingness of the universe. If you have formed...literary taste...your life will be one long ecstasy of denying that the world is a dull place.

To my mind the most poignant mystical exhoration ever written is "Be still and know that I am God."