The great saint may be said to mix all his thoughts with thanks. All goods look better when they look like gifts.

There is only one thing certain and that is that nothing is certain

Original sin is the only doctrine that's been empirically validated by 2,000 years of human history.

A yawn is a silent shout.

...there is in life an element of elfin coincidence which people reckoning on the prosaic may perpetually miss. As it has been well expressed in the paradox of Poe, wisdom should reason on the unforeseen.

[Fairy tales] make rivers run with wine only to make us remember, for one wild moment, that they run with water.

The worst moment for an atheist is when he feels a profound sense of gratitude and has no one to thank.