Imagination does not breed insanity. Exactly what does breed insanity is reason. Poets do not go mad, but chess players do.

There again," said Syme irritably, "what is there poetical about being in revolt? You might as well say that it is poetical to be sea-sick. Being sick is a revolt. Both being sick and being rebellious may be the wholesome thing on certain desperate occasions; but I'm hanged if I can see why they are poetical...It is things going right," he cried, "that is poetical! Our digestions, for instance, going sacredly and silently right, that is the foundation of all poetry...the most poetical thing in the world is not being sick.

The most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen.

Mysticism keeps mankind sane. As long as you have mystery you have health; when you destroy mystery you create morbidity.

Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys, and quadruples our expenses

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

It's not the world that's got so much worse but the news coverage that's got so much better.