It's a good thing to turn your mind upside down now and then, like an hour-glass, to let the particles run the other way.

If you have to keep reminding yourself of a thing, perhaps it isn't so.

All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim.

Religion is an attempt, a noble attempt, to suggest in human terms more-than-human realities.

Words are a commodity in which there is never any slump.

There is only one rule for being a good talker - learn to listen.

Happiness is surely the best teacher of good manners: only the unhappy are churlish in deportment.