...a figure of speech can often get into a crack too small for a definition.

If seeds in the black earth can turn into such beautiful roses, what might not the heart of man become in its long journey toward the stars?

Before the Roman came to Rye or out to severn strode, / The rolling English drunkard made the rolling English road.

There are an infinity of angles at which one falls, only one at which one stands.

To mix science up with philosophy is only to produce a philosophy that has lost all its ideal value and a science that has lost all its practical value. It is for my private physician to tell me whether this or that food will kill me. It is for my private philosopher to tell me whether I ought to be killed.

Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.

In anything that does cover the whole of your life - in your philosophy and your religion - you must have mirth. If you do not have mirth you will certainly have madness.