An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

God is like the sun; you cannot look at it, but without it you cannot look at anything else.

Making the landlord and the tenant the same person has certain advantages, as that the tenant pays no rent, while the landlord does a little work.

A change of opinions is almost unknown in an elderly military man.

Poetry is sane because it floats easily in an infinite sea; reason seeks to cross the infinite sea and so make it finite. The result is mental exhaustion. To accept everything is an exercise, to understand everything a strain.

We are learning to do a great many clever things. The next great task will be to learn not to do them.

One can sometimes do good by being the right person in the wrong place.