Facts as facts do not always create a spirit of reality, because reality is a spirit.

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

Surprise is the secret of joy.

Certain new theologians dispute original sin, which is the only part of Christian theology which can really be proved.

I have no right to think for myself. I have no right to think at all.

Let a man walk ten miles steadily on a hot summer's day along a dusty English road, and he will soon discover why beer was invented.

Even the moon is only poetical because there is a man in the moon.