In the ill-judged execution of the well-judged plan of things the call seldom produces the comer, the man to love rarely coincides with the hour for loving

The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.

The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job.

There's a friendly tie of some sort between music and eating.

Why it was that upon this beautiful feminine tissue, sensitive as gossamer, and practically blank as snow as yet, there should have been traced such a coarse pattern as it was doomed to receive; why so often the coarse appropriates the finer thus, the wrong man the woman, the wrong women the man, many years of analytical philosophy have failed to explain to our sense of order

Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.

If the story-tellers could ha' got decency and good morals from true stories, who'd have troubled to invent parables?