If the common man in the past had a grave respect for property, it may conceivably have been because he sometimes had some of his own.

Happiness is not only a hope, but also in some strange manner a memory ... we are all kings in exile.

To be born into this earth is to be born into uncongenial surroundings, hence to be born into a romance.

The more we are proud that the Bethlehem story is plain enough to be understood by the shepherds, and almost by the sheep, the more do we let ourselves go, in dark and gorgeous imaginative frescoes or pageants about the mystery and majesty of the Three Magian Kings.

A man was meant to be doubtful about himself, but undoubting about the truth; this has been reversed. Nowadays the part of a man that a man does assert is exactly the part he ought not to assert - himself. The part he doubts is exactly the part he ought not to doubt - the Divine Reason.

In all legends men have thought of women as sublime separately but horrible in a herd.

We actually love ourselves more than we love joy.