Employers will give time to eat, time to sleep; they are in terror of a time to think.

The timidity of the child or the savage is entirely reasonable; they are alarmed at this world, because this world is a very alarming place. They dislike being alone because it is verily and indeed an awful idea to be alone. Barbarians fear the unknown for the same reason that Agnostics worship it - because it is a fact.

The old religionist cried out for his god. The new religionist cries out for some god to be his.

Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.

Science is the study of the admitted laws of existence, which cannot prove a universal negative about whether those laws could ever be suspended by something admittedly above them. It is as if we were to say that a lawyer was so deeply learned in the American Constitution that he knew there could never be a revolution in America.

Silence is the unbearable repartee.

When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.