Tea, although an OrientalIs a gentleman at least;Cocoa is a cad and coward,Cocoa is a vulgar beast.

I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I believed in liberals.

In anything that does cover the whole of your life - in your philosophy and your religion - you must have mirth. If you do not have mirth you will certainly have madness.

A nation that has nothing but its amusements will not be amused for long.

The home is not the one tame place in the world of adventure. It is the one wild place in the world of rules and set tasks.

A man's minor actions and arrangements ought to be free, flexible, creative; the things that should be unchangeable are his principles, his ideals. But with us the reverse is true; our views change constantly; but our lunch does not change. Now, I should like men to have strong and rooted conceptions, but as for their lunch, let them have it sometimes in the garden, sometimes in bed, sometimes on the roof, sometimes in the top of a tree. Let them argue from the same first principles, but let them do it in a bed, or a boat, or a balloon.

All we know of the Missing Link is that he is missing - and he won't be missed either.