It is the main earthly business of a human being to make his home, and the immediate surroundings of his home, as symbolic and significant to his own imagination as he can.

We can be almost certain of being wrong about the future, if we are wrong about the past.

Journalism largely consists of saying 'Lord Jones is Dead' to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive.

Truth, of course, must of necessity be stranger than fiction, for we have made fiction to suit ourselves.

The whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis.

When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it.

And though St. John saw many strange monsters in his vision, he saw no creature so wild as one of his own commentators.