Modern man is staggering and losing his balance because he is being pelted with little pieces of alleged fact which are native to the newspapers; and, if they turn out not to be facts, that is still more native to newspapers.

There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect. Men do not quarrel about the meaning of sunsets; they never dispute that the hawthorn says the best and wittiest thing about the spring.

A turkey is more occult and awful than all the angels and archangels. In so far as God has partly revealed to us an angelic world, he has partly told us what an angel means. But God has never told us what a turkey means. And if you go and stare at a live turkey for an hour or two, you will find by the end of it that the enigma has rather increased than diminished.

Democracy is like blowing your nose. You may not do it well, but it's something you ought to do yourself.

The great saint may be said to mix all his thoughts with thanks. All goods look better when they look like gifts.

Youth is always too serious, and just now it is too serious about frivolity.

Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.