The humorous look of children is perhaps the most endearing of all the bonds that hold the Cosmos together. Their top-heavy dignity is more touching than any humility; their solemnity gives us more hope for all things than a thousand carnivals of optimism; their large and lustrous eyes seem to hold all the stars in their astonishment; their fascinating absence of nose seems to give to us the most perfect hint of the humour that awaits us in the kingdom of heaven.

Men rush towards complexity, but they yearn towards simplicity. They try to be kings; but they dream of being shepherds.

if a man would make his world large, he must be always making himself small.

To be born into this earth is to be born into uncongenial surroundings, hence to be born into a romance.

Individually, men may present a more or less rational appearance, eating, sleeping, and scheming. But humanity a a whole is changeful, mystical, fickle, delightful. Men are men, but Man is a woman.

When some English moralists write about the importance of having character, they appear to mean only the importance of having a dull character.

We are all in the same boat, in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty.