Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.

Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.

[V]ariety of climate should always go with stability of abode.... an Englishman’s house is not only his castle; it is his fairy castle. Clouds and colours of every varied dawn and eve are perpetually touching and turning it from clay to gold, or from gold to ivory. There is a line of woodland beyond a corner of my garden which is literally different on every one of the three hundred and sixty-five days. Sometimes it seems as near as a hedge, and sometimes as far as a faint and fiery evening cloud.

Spring never is spring unless it comes too soon.

We are like the penny, because we have the image of the king stamped on us, the divine king.

One can no more have a private religion than one can have a private sun or a private moon.

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.