No man can be merry unless he is serious.

Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised.

There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.

It may not be automatic necessity that makes all daisies alike; it may be that God makes every daisy separately, but has never gotten tired of making them

The scientific facts, which were supposed to contradict the faith in the nineteenth century, are nearly all of them regarded as unscientific fictions in the twentieth century.

A cosmic philosophy is not constructed to fit a man; a cosmic philosophy is constructed to fit a cosmos. A man can no more possess a private religion than he can possess a private sun and moon.

the object of a new year is not that we should have a new year, but rather that we should have a new soul.