We are to regard existence as a raid or great adventure; it is to be judged, therefore, not by what calamities it encounters, but by what flag it follows and what high town it assaults. The most dangerous thing in the world is to be alive; one is always in danger of one's life. But anyone who shrinks from that is a traitor to the great scheme and experiment of being.

Love is not blind; that is the last thing that it is. Love is bound; and the more it is bound the less it is blind.

Evil comes at leisure like the disease. Good comes in a hurry like the doctor.

Because our expression is imperfect we need friendship to fill up the imperfections.

The madman is the man who has lost everything except his reason.

There have been household gods and household saints and household fairies. I am not sure that there have yet been any factory gods or factory saints or factory fairies. I may be wrong, as I am no commericial expert, but I have not heard of them as yet.

Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.