Never invoke the gods unless you really want them to appear. It annoys them very much.

Real development is not leaving things behind, as on a road, but drawing life from them, as from a root.

The real trouble with this world of ours is not that it is an unreasonable world, nor even that it is a reasonable one. The commonest kind of trouble is that it is nearly reasonable, but not quite. ... It looks just a little more mathematical and regular than it is; its exactitude is obvious, but its inexactitude is hidden; its wilderness lies in wait.

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."

Any one of the strange laws we suffer is a compromise between a fad and a vested interest.

When men cease to believe in God, they will believe in anything

All true friendliness begins with fire and food and drink and the recognition of rain or frost.