Time is like an enterprising manager always bent on staging some new and surprising production, without knowing very well what it will be.

Columbus found a world, and had no chart save one that Faith deciphered in the skies.

In any close society it is more urgent to restrain others than to be free oneself. Hence the tendency for the central authority to absorb and supersede such as are local or delegated.

There is nothing sweeter than to be sympathized with.

Man's most serious activity is play.

The Fates, like an absent-minded printer, seldom allow a single line to stand perfect and unmarred.

The world is not respectable; it is mortal, tormented, confused, deluded forever; but it is shot through with beauty, with love, with glints of courage and laughter; and in these, the spirit blooms timidly, and struggles to the light amid the thorns.