The aim of good prose words is to mean what they say. The aim of good poetical words is to mean what they do not say.

War is not the best way of settling differences; it is the only way of preventing their being settled for you.

A man cannot be wise enough to be a great artist without being wise enough to wish to be a philosopher.

What was wonderful about childhood is that anything in it was a wonder. It was not merely a world full of miracles; it was a miraculous world.

CIVILISATION is not to be judged by the rapidity of communication, but by the value of what is communicated.

The objection to fairy stories is that they tell children there are dragons. But children have always known there are dragons. Fairy stories tell children that dragons can be killed.

Morality did not begin by one man saying to another, "I will not hit you if you do not hit me"; there is no trace of such a transaction. There IS a trace of both men having said, "We must not hit each other in the holy place.