Journalism largely consists of saying 'Lord Jones is Dead' to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive.

Man is more himself, man is more manlike, when Joy is the fundamental thing in him, and Grief the superficial. Melancholy should be an innocent interlude, a tender and fugitive state of mind; Praise should be the permanent pulsation of the soul. Pessimism is at best an emotional half-holiday; Joy is the uproarious labor by which all things live? Christianity satisfies suddenly and perfectly man's ancestral instinct for being the right way up; satisfies it supremely in this, that by its creed Joy becomes something gigantic, and Sadness something special and small.

Like every book I never wrote, it is by far the best book I have ever written.

The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.

You don't want to be so open minded that your brains fall out!

Gratitude, being nearly the greatest of human duties, is also nearly the most difficult.

If the world becomes pagan and perishes, the last man left alive would do well to quote the Iliad and die.