One can hardly think too little of one's self. One can hardly think too much of one's soul.

To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.

I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.

Coincidences are spiritual puns.

Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

The moderns do not realize modernity.