Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.

The perils, rewards, punishments, and fulfillments of an adventure must be real, or the adventure is only a shifting and heartless nightmare. If I bet I must be made to pay, or there is no poetry in betting. If I challenge I must be made to fight, or there is no poetry in challenging. If I vow to be faithful I must be cursed when I am unfaithful, or there is no fun vowing.

The poetry of art is in beholding the single tower; the poetry of nature in seeing the single tree; the poetry of love in following the single woman; the poetry of religion in worshipping the single star.

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.

Gratitude produced the most purely joyful moments that have been known to man.

It is largely because the free-thinkers, as a school, have hardly made up their minds whether they want to be more optimist or more pessimist than Christianity that their small but sincere movement has failed.

If an editor can only make people angry enough, they will write half his newspaper for him for nothing.