Thrift is poetic because it is creative; waste is unpoetic because it is waste.

You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.

Surprise is the secret of joy.

Children are grateful when Santa Claus puts in their stockings gifts of toys or sweets. Could I not be grateful to Santa Claus when he put in my stockings the gift of two miraculous legs? We thank people for birthday presents of cigars and slippers. Can I thank no one for the birthday present of birth?

We are learning to do a great many clever things. The next great task will be to learn not to do them.

Earnest Freethinkers need not worry themselves so much about the persecutions of the past. Before the Liberal idea is dead or triumphant we shall see wars and persecutions the like of which the world has never seen.

somehow one must love the world without being worldly.