Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.

[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.

A Beethoven string-quartet is truly, as some one has said, a scraping of horses' tails on cats' bowels, and may be exhaustively described in such terms; but the application of this description in no way precludes the simultaneous applicability of an entirely different description.

All our life, so far as it has definite form, is but a mass of habits.

Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.

If I should throw down a thousand beans at random upon a table, I could doubtless, by eliminating a sufficient number of them, leave the rest in almost any geometrical pattern you might propose to me, and you might then say that that pattern was the thing prefigured beforehand, and that the other beans were mere irrelevance and packing material. Our dealings with Nature are just like this.

A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.