Just at present you only see the tree by the light of the lamp. I wonder when you would ever see the lamp by the light of the tree.

And Noah he often said to his wife when he sat down to dine, "I don't care where the water goes if it doesn't get into the wine."

Every politician is emphatically a promising politician.

The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.

This is the age in which thin and theoretic minorities can cover and conquer unconscious and untheoretic majorities.

All things are from God; and above all, reason and imagination and the great gifts of the mind. They are good in themselves; and we must not altogether forget their origin even in their perversion.

The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them.