It is quite easy to see why a legend is treated, and ought to be treated, more respectfully than a book of history. The legend is generally made by the majority of people in the village, who are sane. The book is generally written by the one man in the village who is mad.

It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.

I left the fairy tales lying on the floor of the nursery, and I have not found any books so sensible since.

A change of opinions is almost unknown in an elderly military man.

For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.

It is very foolish of a man to be frightened of a skeleton, for Nature has put an insurmountable obstacle against running away from it.

Contemporary society has become dry, not for lack of wonders but for lack of wonder.