But I was frightfully fond of the universe and wanted to address it by a diminutive. I often did so; and it never seemed to mind.

Fairy tales are more than true.

To do Mohammed justice, his main attack was against the idolatries of Asia. Only he thought, just as the Arians did and just as the Unitarians do, that he could attack them better with a greater approximation to plain theism. What distinguishes his heresy from anything like an Arian or Albigensian heresy is that, as it sprang up on the borders of Christendom, it could spread outwards to a barbaric world.

The test of happiness is gratitude.

Lord! what a strange world in which a man cannot remain unique even by taking the trouble to go mad!

A sober man may become a drunkard through being a coward. A brave man may become a coward through being a drunkard.

A turkey is more occult and awful than all the angels and archangels. In so far as God has partly revealed to us an angelic world, he has partly told us what an angel means. But God has never told us what a turkey means. And if you go and stare at a live turkey for an hour or two, you will find by the end of it that the enigma has rather increased than diminished.