Nothing is poetical if plain daylight is not poetical; and no monster should amaze us if the normal man does not amaze.

Human anger is a higher thing than what is called divine discontent. For you must be angry with something; but you can be discontented with everything.

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

It is ludicrous to suppose that the more sceptical we are the more we see good in everything. It is clear that the more we are certain what good is, the more we shall see good in everything.

To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.

What is called matriarchy is simply moral anarchy, in which the mother alone remains fixed because all the fathers are fugitive and irresponsible.

A great man knows he is not God, and the greater he is the better he knows it.