Some men never feel small, but these are the few men who are.

To be simple is the best thing in the world.

Every man is important if he loses his life;and every man is funny if he loses his hat and has to run after it.

He is only a very shallow critic who cannot see an eternal rebel in the heart of the Conservative.

Fairy tales do not give the child his first idea of bogey. What fairy tales give the child is his first clear idea of the possible defeat of bogey. The baby has known the dragon intimately ever since he had an imagination. What the fairy tale provides for him is a St. George to kill the dragon.

Monotony has nothing to do with a place; monotony, either in its sensation or its infliction, is simply the quality of a person. There are no dreary sights; there are only dreary sight seers.

The telescope makes the world smaller; it is only the microscope that makes it larger.