One of the chief uses of religion is that it makes us remember our coming from darkness, the simple fact that we are created.

Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.

A small artist is content with art; a great artist is content with nothing except everything.

Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it.

Spring never is spring unless it comes too soon.

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

So far as a man may be proud of a religion rooted in humility, I am very proud of my religion; I am especially proud of those parts of it that are most commonly called superstition. I am proud of being fettered by antiquated dogmas and enslaved by dead creeds (as my journalistic friends repeat with so much pertinacity), for I know very well that it is the heretical creeds that are dead, and that it is only the reasonable dogma that lives long enough to be called antiquated.