Jesus promised his disciples three things—that they would be completely fearless, absurdly happy, and in constant trouble.

Even the moon is only poetical because there is a man in the moon.

The first fact about the celebration of a birthday is that it is a way of affirming defiantly, and even flamboyantly, that it is a good thing to be alive.

I defy anybody to say what are the rights of a citizen, if they do not include the control of his own diet in relation to his own health.

It is one thing to describe an interview with a gorgon or a griffin, a creature who does not exist. It is another thing to discover that the rhinoceros does exist and then take pleasure in the fact that he looks as if he didn't.

An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

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.