Nobody notices postmen, yet they have passions like other men.

Silence is the unbearable repartee.

A good civilisation spreads over us freely like a tree, varying and yielding because it is alive. A bad civilisation stands up and sticks out above us like an umbrella-artificial, mathematical in shape; not merely universal, but uniform.

In truth, there are only two kinds of people; those who accept dogma and know it, and those who accept dogma and don't know it.

somehow one must love the world without being worldly.

In the glad old days, before the rise of modern morbidities...it used to be thought a disadvantage to be misunderstood.

The most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen.