God, children know something they can't tell; they like Red Riding Hood and the wolf in bed!

No man needs curing of his individual sickness; his universal malady is what he should look to.

The night is a skin pulled over the head of day that the day may be in torment.

Time is a great conference planning our end, and youth is only the past putting a leg forward.

The whole world is nothing but a noise, as hot as the inside of a tiger's mouth. They call it civilization - that is a lie! But some day you may have to go out, someone will try to take you out, and you will not understand them or what they are saying, unless you understand nothing, absolutely nothing, then you will manage.

The truth is how you say it, and to be 'one's self' is the most shocking custom of all.

Madness to us means reversion; to such people as Una and Lena it meant progression. Now their uncle had entered into a land beyond them, the land of fancy. For fifty years he had been as they were, silent, hard-working, unimaginative. Then all of a sudden, like a scholar passing his degree, he had gone up into another form.