A man running after a hat is not half so ridiculous as a man running after a woman.

Bigotry is an incapacity to conceive seriously the alternative to a proposition.

I am myself so exceedingly Nordic, as far as physical constitution is concerned, that I can enjoy almost any weather except what is called glorious weather. At the end of a few days, I am left wondering how the men of the Mediterranean ever managed to do almost all the most active and astonishing things that have been done.

It has always been one of my unclerical sermons to myself, that that remark which Peter made on seeing the vision of a single hour, ought to be made by us all, in contemplating every panoramic change in the long Vision we call life... "It is good for us to be here - it is good for us to be here", repeating itself eternally.

A good Moslem king was one who was strict in religion, valiant in battle, just in giving judgment among his people, but not one who had the slightest objection in international matters to removing his neighbour's landmark.

The miser is the man who starves himself and everybody else, in order to worship wealth in its dead form, as distinct from its living form.

When once you have got hold of a vulgar joke, you may be certain that you have got hold of a subtle and spiritual idea.