If Nature had been comfortable, mankind would never have invented architecture.
The modern sympathy with invalids is morbid. Illness of any kind is hardly a thing to be encouraged in others.
Where there is sorrow, there is holy ground.
No theory of life seemed to him to be of any importance compared with life itself
They did not understand a single word of what he was saying, but that made no matter, for they put their heads on one side, and looked wise, which is quite as good as understanding a thing, and very much easier.
A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing. And when Humanity lands there, it looks out, and, seeing a better country, sets sail. Progress is the realisation of Utopias.