Comradeship is obvious and universal and open; but it is only one kind of affection; it has characteristics that would destroy any other kind. Anyone who has known true comradeship in a club or in a regiment, knows that it is impersonal.

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

The center of every man's existence is a dream. Death, disease, insanity, are merely material accidents, like a toothache or a twisted ankle. That these brutal forces always besiege and often capture the citadel does not prove that they are the citadel.

For religion all men are equal, as all pennies are equal, because the only value of any of them is that they bear the image of the king.

And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.

When we really worship anything, we love not only its clearness but its obscurity. We exult in its very invisibility.

The past is not what it was.