The repetition in Nature may not be a mere recurrence; it may be a theatrical encore.

The Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.

Employers will give time to eat, time to sleep; they are in terror of a time to think.

All good men are international. Nearly all bad men are cosmopolitan. If we are to be international we must be national.

The world will never starve for want of wonders; but only for want of wonder.

It is quite easy to see why a legend is treated, and ought to be treated, more respectfully than a book of history. The legend is generally made by the majority of people in the village, who are sane. The book is generally written by the one man in the village who is mad.

There is only one reason an intelligent person doesn't believe in miracles. He or she believes in materialism.