Of all studies, the one he would rather have avoided was that of his own mind. He knew no tragedy so heartrending as introspection.

Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.

The spring is here, young and beautiful as ever, and absolutely shocking in its display of reckless maternity; but the Judas treewill bloom for you on the Bosphorus if you get there in time. No one ever loved the dog-wood and Judas tree as I have done, and it is my one crown of life to be sure that I am going to take them with me to heaven to enjoy real happiness with the Virgin and them.

I am fairly tired--bored beyond endurance--by the world we live in, and its ideals, and am ready to say so, not violently, but kindly, as one rubs salt into the back of a flogged sailor as though one loved him.

Man is an imperceptible atom always trying to become one with God.

Whenever a man reaches the top of the political ladder, his enemies unite to pull him down. His friends become critical and exacting.

The habit of expression leads to the search for something to express. Something remains as a residuum of the commonplace itself, if one strikes out every commonplace in the expression.