Life is really very fantastic, and one has to have a peculiar sense of humour to see the fun of it. [Virtue]

A soul is a troublesome possession, and when man developed it he lost the Garden of Eden.

It seems that the creative faculty and the critical faculty cannot exist together in their highest perfection.

From old habit, unconsciously he thanked God that he no longer believed in Him.

No married man's ever made up his mind until he's heard what his wife has got to say about it.

Our wise old church...has discovered that if you will act as if you believed belief will be given to you; if you pray with doubt, but pray with sincerity, your doubt will be dispelled; if you will surrender yourself to the beauty of that liturgy the power of which over the human spirit has been proved by the experience of the ages, peace will descend upon you.

It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.