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.

And it is always the humble man who talks too much; the proud man watches himself too closely.

Reason is always a kind of brute force; those who appeal to the head rather than the heart, however pallid and polite, are necessarily men of violence. We speak of 'touching' a man's heart, but we can do nothing to his head but hit it.

Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.

You don't want to be so open minded that your brains fall out!

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

The best kind of giving is thanksgiving.