Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.

Do not enjoy yourself. Enjoy dances and theaters and joy-rides and champagne and oysters; enjoy jazz and cocktails and night-clubs if you can enjoy nothing better; enjoy bigamy and burglary and any crime in the calendar, in preference to the other alternative; but never learn to enjoy yourself.

There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.

The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any of them.

Blessed is he that expecteth nothing, for he shall be gloriously surprised.

These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.

It is not merely true that a creed unites men. Nay, a difference of creed unites men - so long as it is a clear difference. A boundary unites. Many a magnanimous Moslem and chivalrous Crusader must have been nearer to each other, because they were both dogmatists, than any two agnostics. "I say God is One," and "I say God is One but also Three," that is the beginning of a good quarrelsome, manly friendship.