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.

You may think a crime horrible because you could never commit it. I think it is horrible because I could commit it.

We're all in the same boat, and we're all seasick.

Science boasts of the distance of its stars; of the terrific remoteness of the things of which it has to speak. But poetry and religion always insist upon the proximity, the almost menacing closeness of the things with which they are concerned. Always the Kingdom of Heaven is "At Hand."

Teach to the young, men's enduring truths, and let the learned amuse themselves with their passing errors.

Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf; is better than a whole loaf.

When once you have got hold of a vulgar joke, you may be certain that you have got hold of a subtle and spiritual idea.