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.

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

The world has been printing books for 450 years, and yet gunpowder still has a wider circulation. Never mind! Printer's ink is the greater explosive: it will win.

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

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.

Perhaps this is an age when men think bravely of the human spirit; for surely they have a strange lust to lay it bare.

A mind too proud to unbend over the small ridiculosa of life is as painful as a library with no trash in it.