Laughter is wholesome. God is not so dull as some people make out. Did not He make the kitten to chase its tail.

Laughter is wholesome. God is not so dull as some people make out. Did not He make the kitten to chase its tail.

In action, the English have the advantage enjoyed by free men always entitled to free discussion: of having a ready judgment on every question. We Germans, on the other hand, are always thinking. We think so much that we never form a judgment.

Sweet May lies fresh before us, To life the young flowers leap, And through the Heaven's blue o'er us The rosy cloudlets sweep.

Out of my own great woe I make my little songs.

Christianity is an idea, and as such is indestructible and immortal, like every idea.

I fell asleep reading a dull book and dreamed I kept on reading, so I awoke from sheer boredom.