Christian Science … is the direct denial both of science and of Christianity, for Science rests wholly on the recognition of truth and Christianity on the recognition of pain.

The man who lives in contact with what he believes to be a living Church is a man always expecting to meet Plato and Shakespeare tomorrow at breakfast. He is always expecting to see some truth that he has never seen before.

Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly.

The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land.

Some men never feel small, but these are the few men who are.

The simplification of anything is always sensational.

Truth, of course, must of necessity be stranger than fiction, for we have made fiction to suit ourselves.