One can sometimes do good by being the right person in the wrong place.

Human anger is a higher thing than what is called divine discontent. For you must be angry with something; but you can be discontented with everything.

Man must have just enough faith in himself to have adventures, and just enough doubt of himself to enjoy them.

All science, even the divine science, is a sublime detective story. Only it is not set to detect why a man is dead; but the darker secret of why he is alive.

Do not be proud of the fact that your grandmother was shocked at something which your are accustomed to seeing or hearing without being shocked. ... It may be that your grandmother was an extremely lively and vital animal and that you are a paralytic.

A third-class carriage is a community, while a first-class carriage is a place of wild hermits.

If man is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust.