Manners are like zero in arithmetic. They may not be much in themselves, but they are capable of adding a great deal of value to everything else.

Once divested of missionary virus, the cult of our gods gives no offence. It would be a peaceful age if this were recognized, and religion, Christian, communist or any other, were to rely on practice and not on conversion for her growth.

youth looks at its world and age looks through it; youth must get busy on problems whose outlines stand single and strenuous before it, while age can, with luck, achieve a cosmic private harmony unsuited for action as a rule.

Time is the sea in which men grow, are born, or die.

I do like people who have not yet made up their minds about everything, who in fact are still receiving

Christmas... is not an external event at all, but a piece of one's home that one carries in one's heart.

One life is an absurdly small allowance.