We need those who pray constantly to compensate for those who do not pray at all.

Reason is intelligence taking exercise. Imagination is intelligence with an erection.

Nature is pitiless; she never withdraws her flowers, her music, her fragrance, and her sunlight from before human cruelty or suffering.

England has two books, the Bible and Shakespeare. England made Shakespeare,but the Bible made England.

Every bird which flies has the thread of the infinite in its claw.

It is ourselves we have to fear. Prejudice is the real robber, and vice the real murderer.

Dry happiness is like dry bread. We eat, but we do not dine. I wish for the superfluous, for the useless, for the extravagant, for the too much, for that which is not good for anything.