There is a certain poetic value, and that a genuine one, in this sense of having missed the full meaning of things. There is beauty, not only in wisdom, but in this dazed and dramatic ignorance.

The humorous look of children is perhaps the most endearing of all the bonds that hold the Cosmos together.

No man must be superior to the things that are common to men.... Not only are we all in the same boat, but we are all seasick.

It is often a mistake to combine two pleasures, because pleasures, like pains, can act as counter-irri-tants to each other.

He had found the thing which the modern people call Impressionism, which is another name for that final scepticism which can find no floor to the universe.

One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.

Life is serious all the time, but living cannot be. You may have all the solemnity you wish in your neckties, but in anything important (such as sex, death, and religion), you must have mirth or you will have madness.