I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.

The determining bulk of Scotch people had heard of golf ever since they had heard of God and often considered the two as of equal importance.

Time and again, the Faith has to all appearances gone to the dogs. But each time, it was the dog that died.

Modern masters of science are much impressed with the need of beginning all inquiry with a fact. The ancient masters of religion were quite equally impressed with that necessity. They began with the fact of sin-a fact as practical as potatoes. Whether or not man could be washed in miraculous waters, there was no doubt at any rate that he wanted washing.

That young man with the long, auburn hair and the impudent face - that young man was not really a poet; but surely he was a poem.

You cannot grow a beard in a moment of passion.

In a world flagrant with the failures of civilization, what is there particularly immortal about our own?