The test of happiness is gratitude.

Be careful how you suggest things to me. For there is in me a madness which goes beyond martyrdom, the madness of an utterly idle man.

The old restriction meant that only the orthodox were allowed to discuss religion. Modern liberty means that nobody is allowed to discuss it. Good taste, the last and vilest of human superstitions, has succeeded in silencing us where all the rest have failed.

Meaninglessness does not come from being weary of pain. Meaninglessness comes from being weary of pleasure.

What a glorious garden of wonders the lights of Broadway would be to anyone lucky enough to be unable to read.

There have been household gods and household saints and household fairies. I am not sure that there have yet been any factory gods or factory saints or factory fairies. I may be wrong, as I am no commericial expert, but I have not heard of them as yet.

The repetition in Nature may not be a mere recurrence; it may be a theatrical encore.