In church, sacred music would make believers of us all — but preachers can be counted on to restore the balance.

I often pray, though I'm not really sure Anyone's listening; and I phrase it carefully, just in case He's literary.

Youth is not enough. And love is not enough. And success is not enough. And, if we could achieve it, enough would not be enough.

It does not undo harm to acknowledge that we have done it; but it undoes us not to acknowledge it.

We cough because we can't help it, but others do it on purpose.

As we grow older, our capacity for enjoyment shrinks, but not our appetite for it.

We have a terror of seeming to exert ourselves, lest it be noticed that we exerted ourselves and did not succeed.