There's a lot of difference between listening and hearing.

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

It is very good for a man to talk about what he does not understand; as long as he understands that he does not understand it.

Children are grateful when Santa Claus puts in their stockings gifts of toys or sweets. Could I not be grateful to Santa Claus when he put in my stockings the gift of two miraculous legs? We thank people for birthday presents of cigars and slippers. Can I thank no one for the birthday present of birth?

You!" he cried. "You never hated because you never lived. I know what you are all of you, from first to last--you are the people in power! You are the police--the great, fat smiling men in blue and buttons! You are the Law, and you have never been broken. But is there a free soul alive that does not long to break you, only because you have never been broken?

We can’t turn life into a pleasure. But we can choose such pleasures as are worthy of us and our immortal souls.

Man is at his tallest when he bows.