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.

It will be a shock to men when they realize that thoughts that were fast enough for today are not fast enough for tomorrow. But thinking tomorrow's thoughts today is one kind of future life.

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

There is indeed a heaven on this earth, a heaven which we inhabit when we read a good book.

Continually one faces the horrible matter of making decisions. The solution is, as far as possible, to avoid conscious rational decisions and choices; simply to do what you find yourself doing; to float in the great current of life with as little friction as possible; to allow things to settle themselves, as indeed they do with the most infallible certainty.

Animal crackers, and cocoa to drink That is the finest of suppers, I think When I'm grown up and can have what I please, I think I shall always insist upon these.

The plural of spouse is spice.