People who feel themselves to be exiles in this world are mightily inclined to believe themselves citizens of another.

Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny.

A grateful environment is a substitute for happiness. It can quicken us from without as a fixed hope and affection, or as the consciousness of a right life, can quicken us from within.

With an artist no sane man quarrels, any more than with the colour of a child's eyes.

Nothing is so irrevocable as mind.

Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.

We do right enough darling, if we go wrong together.