The one perfectly divine thing, the one glimpse of God's paradise given on earth, is to fight a losing battle - and not lose it.

A good man's work is effected by doing what he does, a woman's by being what she is.

If I did not believe in God, I should still want my doctor, my lawyer and my banker to do so.

To hurry through one's leisure is the most unbusiness-like of actions.

I've searched all the parks in all the cities - and found no statues of Committees.

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

The most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless modern philosopher. Compared to him, burglars and bigamists are essentially moral men.