A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.

Men did not love Rome because she was great. She was great because they had loved her.

People talk of the pathos and failure of plain women; but it is a more terrible thing that a beautiful woman may succeed in everything but womanhood.

Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.

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.

One pleasure attached to growing older is that many things seem to be growing younger; growing fresher and more lively than we once supposed them to be.

If you'd take your head home and boil it for a turnip it might be useful. I can't say. But it might.