Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself.

It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own.

The whole of nature, as has been said, is a conjugation of the verb to eat, in the active and in the passive.

To marry is to get a binocular view of life.

The statistics of suicide show that, for non-combatants at least, life is more interesting in war than in peace.

I have no fear that the candle lighted in Palestine years ago will ever be put out.

Boredom is a certain sign that we are allowing our faculties to rust in idleness.