The ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense, that he is soaked and swept away by mere associations.

A thing may be too sad to be believed or too wicked to be believed or too good to be believed; but it cannot be too absurd to be believed in this planet of frogs and elephants, of crocodiles and cuttle-fish.

Spring never is spring unless it comes too soon.

Journalism largely consists of saying 'Lord Jones is Dead' to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive.

It is the root of all religion that a man knows that he is nothing in order to thank God that he is something.

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

A good joke is the closest thing we have to divine revelation.