Why should man bother himself so much about salvation, unless he has a feeling of being doomed?

There is so much to love and to admire in this life that it is an act of ingratitude not to be happy and content in this existence.

Society can exist only on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says exactly what he thinks.

And if the reader has no taste for what he reads, all the time is wasted

No child is born with a really cold heart, and it is only in proportion as we lose that youthful heart that we lose the inner warmth in ourselves.

A tendency to fly too straight at a goal, instead of circling around it, often carries one too far.

Life is too short to make an over-serious business out of it.