It is a time of quiet joy, the sunny morning. When the glittery dew is on the mallow weeds, each leaf holds a jewel which is beautiful if not valuable. This is no time for hurry or for bustle. Thoughts are slow and deep and golden in the morning.

The utter insanity of living in a place like this doesn't occur to the 9,000,000 people who inhabit New York. Except for visits I think I shall not be here any more as a resident.

The proofs that God does not exist are very strong, but in lots of people they are not as strong as the feeling that He does.

The final weapon is the brain, all else is supplemental.

And then we take a soldier and put murder in his hands and we say to him, "Use it well, use it wisely.

Men really need sea-monsters in their personal oceans. An ocean without its unnamed monsters would be like a completely dreamless sleep.

The people say that the two seemed to be removed from human experience; that they had gone through pain and had come out on the other side.