Acceptance is the truest kinship with humanity.

Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.

I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.

The academic mind reflects infinity, and is full of light by the simple process of being shallow and standing still.

The whole order of things is as outrageous as any miracle which could presume to violate it.

Correctitude implies nowadays a formal or fastidious use of words; and what is wanted is not so much the correct as the living use of words. It is the memory of the meaning of a word which is the life of the word.

The martyr endured tortures to affirm his belief in truth but he never asserted his disbelief in torture.