A naked moon stood in a naked sky.

Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.

There is only one thing that it requires real courage to say, and that is a truism.

The mind that finds its way to wild places is the poet's; but the mind that never finds its way back is the lunatic's.

Faith is always at a disadvantage; it is a perpetually defeated thing which survives all conquerors.

In the glad old days, before the rise of modern morbidities...it used to be thought a disadvantage to be misunderstood.

There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob.