Humility is the mother of giants.

We do not want joy and anger to neutralize each other and produce a surly contentment; we want a fiercer delight and a fiercer discontent. We have to feel the universe at once as an ogre's castle, to be stormed, and yet as our own cottage, to which we can return to at evening.

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.

There is only one thing certain and that is that nothing is certain

Thanks are the highest form of thought.

Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.

I represent the jolly mass of mankind. I am the happy and reckless Christian.