Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run.

That older and greater church to which I belong: the church where the oftener you laugh the better, because by laughter only can you destroy evil without malice

Keep away from books and from men who get their ideas from books, and your own books will always be fresh.

I have found, after a good deal of consideration, that the best place to seek God is in a garden. You can dig for Him here.

To the person with a toothache, even if the world is tottering, there is nothing more important than a visit to a dentist.

The medieval doctors of divinity who did not pretend to settle how many angels could dance on the point of a needle cut a very poor figure as far as romantic credulity is concerned beside the modern physicists who have settled to the billionth of a millimetre every movement and position in the dance of the electrons. Not for worlds would I question the precise accuracy of these calculations or the existence of electrons (whatever they may be). The fate of Joan is a warning to me against such heresy.

Youth, what a pity to waste it on the young.