The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.

Somehow one can never manage to be an atheist.

Monotony has nothing to do with a place; monotony, either in its sensation or its infliction, is simply the quality of a person. There are no dreary sights; there are only dreary sight seers.

All science, even the divine science, is a sublime detective story. Only it is not set to detect why a man is dead; but the darker secret of why he is alive.

I say that a man must be certain of his morality for the simple reason that he has to suffer for it.

It is well sometimes to half understand a poem in the same manner that we half understand the world.

Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.