A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.

When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything.

The fact is that purification and austerity are even more necessary for the appreciation of life and laughter than for anything else. To let no bird fly past unnoticed, to spell the stones and weeds, to have the mind a storehouse of sunset, requires a discipline in pleasure and an education in gratitude.

Love is not blind; that is the last thing that it is. Love is bound; and the more it is bound the less it is blind.

When a politician is in opposition he is an expert on the means to some end; and when he is in office he is an expert on the obstacles to it.

Not only does "orthodox" no longer mean being right, it practically means being wrong.

An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.