The simplification of anything is always sensational.

The only way to be sure of catching a train is to miss the one before it.

In matters of truth the fact that you don't want to publish something is, nine times out of ten, a proof that you ought to publish it.

Hope means hoping when things are hopeless, or it is no virtue at all. And faith means believing the incredible, or it is no virtue at all.

Jesus promised his disciples three things—that they would be completely fearless, absurdly happy, and in constant trouble.

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.

I am myself so exceedingly Nordic, as far as physical constitution is concerned, that I can enjoy almost any weather except what is called glorious weather. At the end of a few days, I am left wondering how the men of the Mediterranean ever managed to do almost all the most active and astonishing things that have been done.