Vigorous organisms talk not about their processes, but about their aims.

Facts by themselves can often feed the flame of madness, because sanity is a spirit.

The home is not the one tame place in the world of adventure. It is the one wild place in the world of rules and set tasks.

The problem of disbelieving in God is not that a man ends up believing nothing. Alas, it is much worse. He ends up believing anything.

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.

Making the landlord and the tenant the same person has certain advantages, as that the tenant pays no rent, while the landlord does a little work.

The most poetical thing in the world is not being sick.