People must have both their dreams and their dinners in this world, and when we go out of it we must take what we find. That is all.

For all men have but a little while to live and none knows his fate thereafter. So that a man possesses nothing certainly save a brief loan of his body: and yet the body of man is capable of much curious pleasure.

In religious matters a traveller loses nothing by civility.

People never want to be told anything they do not believe already.

Life is very marvelous... and to the wonders of the earth there is no end appointed.

What really matters is that there is so much faith and love and kindliness which we can share with and provoke in others, and that by cleanly, simple, generous living we approach perfection in the highest and most lovely of all arts. . . . But you, I think, have always comprehended this.

I take it that I must be the eternal playfellow of time. For piety and common-sense and death are rightfully time's toys; and it is with these three that I divert myself.