The poetry of art is in beholding the single tower; the poetry of nature in seeing the single tree; the poetry of love in following the single woman; the poetry of religion in worshipping the single star.

It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.

Tolerance is the virtue of those who don't believe anything.

The humorous look of children is perhaps the most endearing of all the bonds that hold the Cosmos together. Their top-heavy dignity is more touching than any humility; their solemnity gives us more hope for all things than a thousand carnivals of optimism; their large and lustrous eyes seem to hold all the stars in their astonishment; their fascinating absence of nose seems to give to us the most perfect hint of the humour that awaits us in the kingdom of heaven.

I am at one with my duality.

Truth, of course, must of necessity be stranger than fiction, for we have made fiction to suit ourselves.

The modern materialists are not permitted to doubt; they are forbidden to believe.