The Church is a house with a hundred gates: and no two men enter at exactly the same angle

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

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.

It is often a mistake to combine two pleasures, because pleasures, like pains, can act as counter-irri-tants to each other.

It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.

Posting a letter and getting married [sic] are among the few things left that are entirely romantic; for to be entirely romantic, a thing must be irrevocable

Humility is the luxurious art of reducing ourselves to a point, not to a small thing or a large one, but to a thing with no size at all, so that to it all the cosmic things are what they really are - of immeasurable stature.