Religion is different from everything else; because in religion seeking is finding.

It's all very well to tell us to forgive our enemies; our enemies can never hurt us very much. But oh, what about forgiving our friends?

Life began for me, when I ceased to admire and began to remember.

Men are all right for friends, but as soon as you marry them they turn into cranky old fathers, even the wild ones.

From the time the Englishman's bones harden into bones at all, he makes his skeleton a flagstaff, and he early plants his feet like one who is to walk the world and the decks of all the seas.

New things are always ugly.

One cannot divine nor forecast the conditions that will make happiness; one only stumbles upon them by chance, in a lucky hour, at the world's end somewhere, and hold fast to the days.