Political Economy means that everybody except politicians must be economical.

Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers.

The vault above us is not deaf because the universe is an idiot; the silence is not the heartless silence of an endless and aimless world. Rather the silence around us is a small and pitiful stillness like the prompt stillness of a sick room. We are perhaps permitted tragedy as a sort of merciful comedy, because the frantic energy of divine things would knock us down like a drunken farce. We can take our own tears more lightly than we could take the tremendous levities of the angels. So we sit perhaps in a starry chamber of silence while the laughter of the heavens is too loud for us to hear.

A man will not roll in the snow for a stream of tendency by which all things fulfill the law of their being. He will not go without food in the name of something, not ourselves, that makes for righteousness. He will do things like this, or pretty nearly like this, under quite a different impulse. He will do these things when he is in love.

Most Americans are born drunk, and really require a little wine or beer to sober them.

There is the great lesson of 'Beauty and the Beast,' that a thing must be loved before it is lovable.

Misers get up early in the morning; and burglars, I am informed, get up the night before.