Coincidence is a spiritual pun.

A thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.

The full potentialities of human fury cannot be reached until a friend of both parties tactfully intervenes.

The function of the imagination is not to make strange things settled, so much as to make settled things strange.

A citizen can hardly distinguish between a tax and a fine, except that the fine is generally much lighter.

Thrift is the really romantic thing; economy is more romantic than extravagance... thrift is poetic because it is creative; waste is unpoetic because it is waste... if a man could undertake to make use of all the things in his dustbin, he would be a broader genius than Shakespeare.

You cannot grow a beard in a moment of passion.