It is better to speak wisdom foolishly like the saints than to speak folly wisely like the deans.

One can no more have a private religion than one can have a private sun or a private moon.

There is the great lesson of 'Beauty and the Beast,' that a thing must be loved before it is lovable.

I am myself so exceedingly Nordic, as far as physical constitution is concerned, that I can enjoy almost any weather except what is called glorious weather. At the end of a few days, I am left wondering how the men of the Mediterranean ever managed to do almost all the most active and astonishing things that have been done.

It is very foolish of a man to be frightened of a skeleton, for Nature has put an insurmountable obstacle against running away from it.

To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.

And Noah he often said to his wife when he sat down to dine, "I don't care where the water goes if it doesn't get into the wine."