Miscellaneous

If I were going to convert to any religion I would probably choose Catholicism because it at least has female read more

If I were going to convert to any religion I would probably choose Catholicism because it at least has female saints and the Virgin Mary.

Once upon a time you could wander around one country, then the next and then maybe you'd go to England read more

Once upon a time you could wander around one country, then the next and then maybe you'd go to England or wherever. Now they all want you to do it at the same time and you can't. It's just not physically possible.

He did not arrive at this conclusion by the decent process of quiet, logical deduction, nor yet by the blinding read more

He did not arrive at this conclusion by the decent process of quiet, logical deduction, nor yet by the blinding flash of glorious intuition, but by the shoddy, untidy process halfway between the two by which one usually gets to know things.

In common with many Christians of the classic type he felt sincerely safer and more at ease when he had read more

In common with many Christians of the classic type he felt sincerely safer and more at ease when he had given away all he had, like a man passing a ball in a game.

If one cannot command attention by one's admirable qualities one can at least be a nuisance

If one cannot command attention by one's admirable qualities one can at least be a nuisance

Mourning is not forgetting... It is an undoing. Every minute tie has to be untied and something permanent and valuable read more

Mourning is not forgetting... It is an undoing. Every minute tie has to be untied and something permanent and valuable recovered and assimilated from the dust.

If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia.

If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia.

I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their read more

I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own.

I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one 'race' - the human race - read more

I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one 'race' - the human race - and that we are all members of it.

No one knows what cuases an outer landscape to become an inner one.

No one knows what cuases an outer landscape to become an inner one.