There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.

There are many ways to fall down, but there's only one way to stand up straight.

Aristocracy: government by the badly educated.

We are all ordinary people. And it's the extraordinary people Who know it.

Man is more himself, man is more manlike, when Joy is the fundamental thing in him, and Grief the superficial. Melancholy should be an innocent interlude, a tender and fugitive state of mind; Praise should be the permanent pulsation of the soul. Pessimism is at best an emotional half-holiday; Joy is the uproarious labor by which all things live? Christianity satisfies suddenly and perfectly man's ancestral instinct for being the right way up; satisfies it supremely in this, that by its creed Joy becomes something gigantic, and Sadness something special and small.

Science is the study of the admitted laws of existence, which cannot prove a universal negative about whether those laws could ever be suspended by something admittedly above them. It is as if we were to say that a lawyer was so deeply learned in the American Constitution that he knew there could never be a revolution in America.

He wondered why the pelican was the symbol of charity, except it was that it wanted a good deal of charity to admire a pelican.