Man makes a great fuss about this planet which is only a ballbearing in the hub of the universe.

The trouble with wedlock is that there's not enough wed and too much lock.

A critic is a gong at a railroad crossing clanging loudly and vainly as the train goes by.

Being in a hurry seems so fiercely important when you yourself are the hurrier and so comically ludicrous when it is someone else.

We visit bookshops not so often to buy any one special book, but rather to rediscover, in the happier and more expressive words of others, our own encumbered soul.

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.

Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.