I wish we didn't live in a world where buying and selling things seems to have become almost more important than either producing or using them.

If anyone would like to acquire humility, the first step is to realize one is proud. Nothing can be done before it.

Thus we have now for many centuries triumphed over nature to the extent of making certain secondary characteristics of the male (such as the beard) disagreeable to nearly all the females—and there is more in that than you might suppose.

Keep clear of psychiatrists unless you know that they are also Christians. Otherwise they start with the assumption that your religion is an illusion and try to 'cure' it: and this assumption they make not as professional psychologists but as amateur philosophers.

The process of growing up is to be valued for what we gain, not for what we lose.

It's so large" "It's the world dear, did you think it'd be small?" "smaller

Ah, poor Pole. It's been to much for her, this last bit. Turned her head, I shouldn't wonder. She's beginning to see things.