Could one start a Stagnation Party-which at General Elections would boast that during its term of office no event of the least importance had taken place?

The only palliative is to keep the clean sea breeze of the centuries blowing through our minds, and this can be done only by reading old books.

Anyone who endeavors to be a Christian will soon find his intelligence being sharpened. You are embarking on something that is going to take the whole of you, brains and all.

Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.

We only learn to behave ourselves in the presence of God.

A moderated religion is as good for us as no religion at all—and more amusing.

While we are actually subjected to them, the 'moods' and 'spirits' of nature point no morals. Overwhelming gaiety, insupportable grandeur, sombre desolation are flung at you. Make what you can of them, if you must make at all. The only imperative that nature utters is, 'Look. Listen. Attend.