Then I only wondered who put the toys in the stocking; now I wonder who put the stocking by the bed, and the bed in the room, and the room in the house, and the house on the planet, and the great planet in the void.

I am not fighting a hopeless fight. People who have fought in real fights don't, as a rule.

What is the good of telling a community that it has every liberty except the liberty to make laws? The liberty to make laws is what constitutes a free people.

No sceptical philosopher can ask any questions that may not equally be asked by a tired child on a hot afternoon.

The original quality in any man of imagination is imagery.

The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.

The past is democratic, because it is a people. The future is despotic, because it is a caprice. Every man is alone in his prediction, just as each man is alone in a dream.