A clergyman is one who feels himself called upon to live without working at the expense of the rascals who work to live.

Paradise was made for tender hearts; hell, for loveless hearts.

Among the illusions which have invested our civilization is an absolute belief that the solutions to our problems must be a more determined application of rationally organized expertise... The reality is that our problems are largely the product of that application.

Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.

Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.

Earth is an insane asylum, to which the other planets deport their lunatics.

No one is ignorant that our character and turn of mind are intimately connected with the water-closet.