Women prefer to talk in twos, while men prefer to talk in threes.

All the exaggerations are right, if they exaggerate the right thing.

There is only one thing that it requires real courage to say, and that is a truism.

The truth is that it is our attitude towards children that is right, and our attitude towards grown-up people that is wrong.

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

There again," said Syme irritably, "what is there poetical about being in revolt? You might as well say that it is poetical to be sea-sick. Being sick is a revolt. Both being sick and being rebellious may be the wholesome thing on certain desperate occasions; but I'm hanged if I can see why they are poetical...It is things going right," he cried, "that is poetical! Our digestions, for instance, going sacredly and silently right, that is the foundation of all poetry...the most poetical thing in the world is not being sick.

Suppose, my dear Chadd, suppose it is we who are the idiots because we are not afraid of devils in the dark?