Jerome K. Jerome - Diary of a Pilgrimage (1891)

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I often arrive at quite sensible ideas and judgements, on the spur of the moment. It is when I stop to think that I become foolish.

Jerome K. Jerome

Time is but the shadow of the world upon the background of Eternity.

Jerome K. Jerome

Man, if he would live, must worship. He looks around, and what to him, within the vision of his life, is the greatest and the best, that he falls down and does reverence to.

Jerome K. Jerome

Truth and fact are old-fashioned and out-of-date, my friends, fit only for the dull and vulgar to live by. Appearance, not reality, is what the clever dog grasps at in these clever days. We spurn the dull-brown solid earth; we build our lives and homes in the fair-seeming rainbow-land of shadow and chimera.

Jerome K. Jerome

Among all nations there should be vast temples raised where people might worship in silence and listen to it, for it is the voice of God

Jerome K. Jerome