The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any of them.

Family is the theatre of the spiritual drama, the place where things happen, especially the things that matter.

Man is more himself, man is more manlike, when joy is the fundamental thing in him, and grief the superficial. Melancholy should be an innocent interlude, a tender and fugitive frame of mind; praise should be the permanent pulsation of the soul.

I came to the conclusion that the optimist thought everything good except the pessimist, and that the pessimist thought everything bad, except himself.

In the main, and from the beginning of time, mysticism has kept men sane. The thing that has driven them mad was logic.

Only poor men get hanged.

Ten thousand women marched through the streets shouting, 'We will not be dictated to,' and went off and became stenographers.