Gratitude produced the most purely joyful moments that have been known to man.

It was the people who did not care who filled the world with fire and oppression. It was the hands of the indifferent that lit the faggots; it was the hands of the indifferent that turned the rack.

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.

And it did for one wild moment cross my mind that, perhaps, those might not be the very best judges of the relation of religion to happiness who, by their own account, had neither one nor the other.

You never know the best about men until you know the worst about them.

It is impossible without humility to enjoy anything - even pride.

Man is at his tallest when he bows.