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All men matter. You matter. I matter. It's the hardest thing in theology to believe.
Facts by themselves can often feed the flame of madness, because sanity is a spirit.
The strangest whim has seized me ... After all I think I will not hang myself today.
A good man's work is effected by doing what he does, a woman's by being what she is.
Adventure is the champagne of life, but I prefer my champagne and my adventures dry.
The only way of catching a train I have ever discovered is to miss the train before.
Contemporary society has become dry, not for lack of wonders but for lack of wonder.
Do not look at the faces in the illustrated papers. Look at the faces in the street.
Modern man is educated to understand foreign languages and misunderstand foreigners.
Because our expression is imperfect we need friendship to fill up the imperfections.
Christianity even when watered down is hot enough to boil all modern society to rags.
The pure modernist is merely a snob; he cannot bear to be a month behind the fashion.
The repetition in Nature may not be a mere recurrence; it may be a theatrical encore.
Facts as facts do not always create a spirit of reality, because reality is a spirit.
No man can break any of the Ten Commandments. He can only break himself against them.
Most Americans are born drunk, and really require a little wine or beer to sober them.
I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.
Men did not love Rome because she was great. She was great because they had loved her.
Employers will give time to eat, time to sleep; they are in terror of a time to think.
Not only does "orthodox" no longer mean being right, it practically means being wrong.
Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.
The telescope makes the world smaller; it is only the microscope that makes it larger.
Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.
All we know of the Missing Link is that he is missing - and he won't be missed either.
In all legends men have thought of women as sublime separately but horrible in a herd.
Never invoke the gods unless you really want them to appear. It annoys them very much.
Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young.
People that insist upon drinking and driving, are putting the quart before the hearse.
Romance is the combination of something that is strange with something that is secure.
If it's worth doing, it's worth doing badly. (on not perfectionism to put things off) .
We are all in the same boat, in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty.
It is the chief value of legend to mix up the centuries while preserving the sentiment.
These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
Religious unity can look like a carnival and religious liberty can look like a funeral.
Circumstances break men's bones; it has never been shown that they break men's optimism.
I had always felt life first as a story: and if there is a story there is a story-teller
The man who throws a bomb is an artist, because he prefers a great moment to everything.
One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.
Gratitude, being nearly the greatest of human duties, is also nearly the most difficult.
The decay of society is praised by artists as the decay of a corpse is praised by worms.
Our digestions, going sacredly and silently right, that is the foundation of all poetry.
Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.
A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
Misers get up early in the morning; and burglars, I am informed, get up the night before.
Criticism is only words about words, and of what use are words about such words as these?
Realism is simply Romanticism that has lost its reason...that is its reason for existing.
Joy, which was the small publicity of the pagan, is the gigantic secret of the Christian.
One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
We can be almost certain of being wrong about the future, if we are wrong about the past.
The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense.