The ignorant pronounce it Frood To cavil or applaud The well-informed pronounce it Froyd But I pronounce it Fraud.

The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land.

According to most philosophers, God in making the world enslaved it. According to Christianity, in making it, He set it free. God had written, not so much a poem, but rather a play; a play he had planned as perfect, but which had necessarily been left to human actors and stage-managers, who had since made a great mess of it.

There is no way in which a man can earn a star or deserve a sunset.

The Church is a house with a hundred gates: and no two men enter at exactly the same angle

Monotony has nothing to do with a place; monotony, either in its sensation or its infliction, is simply the quality of a person. There are no dreary sights; there are only dreary sight seers.

If you convey to a woman that something ought to be done, there is always a dreadful danger that she will suddenly do it.