Poets do not go mad, but chess players do.

The doctrine of human equality reposes on this: that there is no man really clever who has not found that he is stupid.

A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.

If man is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust.

The real trouble with this world of ours is not that it is an unreasonable world, nor even that it is a reasonable one. The commonest kind of trouble is that it is nearly reasonable, but not quite. ... It looks just a little more mathematical and regular than it is; its exactitude is obvious, but its inexactitude is hidden; its wilderness lies in wait.

In real life the people who are most bigoted are the people who have no convictions at all.

He walked by instinct along one white road, on which early birds hopped and sang, and found himself outside a fenced garden. There he saw the sister of Gregory, the girl with the gold-red hair, cutting lilac before breakfast, with the great unconscious gravity of a girl.