You can cover a great deal of country in books.

Again, if there are really no fairies, why do people believe in them, all over the world? The ancient Greeks believed, so did the old Egyptians, and the Hindoos, and the Red Indians, and is it likely, if there are no fairies, that so many different peoples would have seen and heard them?

I'd leave all the hurry, the noise, and the fray, for a house full of books, and a garden of flowers.

An unsophisticated forecaster uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts - for support rather than for illumination.

Life's more amusing than we thought.

Among the various forms of science which are reaching and affecting the new popular tradition, we have reckoned Anthropology. Pleasantly enough, Anthropology has herself but recently emerged from that limbo of the unrecognised in which Psychical Research is pining.

Of all animals, the cat alone attains to the comtemplative life. He regards the wheel of existence from without, like the Buddha.