It is a mathematical fact that if a line be not perfectly directed towards a point, it will actually go further away from it as it comes nearer to it.

I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.

A naked moon stood in a naked sky.

There are two kinds of people in the world, the conscious dogmatists and the unconscious dogmatists. I have always found myself that the unconscious dogmatists were by far the most dogmatic.

Every one on this earth should believe, amid whatever madness or moral failure, that his life and temperament have some object on the earth. Every one on the earth should believe that he has something to give to the world which cannot otherwise be given.

It's the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.

There are an infinity of angles at which one falls, only one at which one stands.