"Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays."

"Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearences."

"I begin with the principle that all men are bores. Surely no one will prove himself so great a bore as to contradict me in this."

"Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it."

"It's one thing to be religious, but it's another thing to make religion your policy."

"Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth."

"White... is not a mere absence of colour; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black... God paints in many colours; but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white."

"For love would be love of the wrong thing there is yet faith, But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting."