Only the sinner has the right to preach.

Blessed is the satirist; and blessed the ironist; blessed the witty scoffer, and blessed the sentimentalist; for each, having seen one spoke of the wheel, thinks to have seen all, and is content.

I had a million questions to ask God: but when I met Him, they all fled my mind; and it didn't seem to matter.

Any man worth his salt has by the time he is forty-five accumulated a crown of thorns, and the problem is to learn to wear it over one ear.

The greatest poem ever known Is one all poets have outgrown: The poetry, innate, untold, Of being only four years old.

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.

There is an innate decorum in man, and it is not fair to thrust Truth upon people when they don't expect it. Only the very generous are ready for Truth impromptu.