Idolatry is when you worship what you should use, and use what you should worship.

I am at one with my duality.

What life and death may be to a turkey is not my business; but the soul of Scrooge and the body of Cratchit are my business.

The aim of good prose words is to mean what they say. The aim of good poetical words is to mean what they do not say.

The center of every man's existence is a dream. Death, disease, insanity, are merely material accidents, like a toothache or a twisted ankle. That these brutal forces always besiege and often capture the citadel does not prove that they are the citadel.

There is no logical connection between flying and laying eggs.

The moderns do not realize modernity.