Those who meant well behaved in the same way as those who meant badly.
All the advantages of Christianity and alcohol; none of their defects.
No holiday is ever anything but a disappointment.
Too much consistency is as bad for the mind as for the body.
A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.
The amelioration of the world cannot be achieved by sacrifices in moments of crisis; it depends on the efforts made and constantly repeated during the humdrum, uninspiring periods, which separate one crisis from another, and of which normal lives mainly consist.