If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised to find how little remains that we cannot do.

[P]oetry resembles metaphysics: one does not mind one's own, but one does not like anyone else's.

Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.

It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of respectable parents.

If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.

Christ was only crucified once and for a few hours. Think of the hundreds of thousands whom Christ has been crucifying in a quiet way ever since.

God as now generally conceived of is only the last witch.