The human race is always trying this dodge of making everything entirely easy; but the difficulty which it shifts off one thing it shifts to another.

All true friendliness begins with fire and food and drink and the recognition of rain or frost.

I wish we could sometimes love the characters in real life as we love the characters in romances. There are a great many human souls whom we should accept more kindly, and even appreciate more clearly, if we simply thought of them as people in a story.

If a man called Christmas Day a mere hypocritical excuse for drunkenness and gluttony, that would be false, but it would have a fact hidden in it somewhere. But when Bernard Shaw says the Christmas Day is only a conspiracy kept up by poulterers and wine merchants from strictly business motives, then he says something which is not so much false as startling and arrestingly foolish. He might as well say that the two sexes were invented by jewellers who wanted to sell wedding rings.

It is very good for a man to talk about what he does not understand; as long as he understands that he does not understand it.

It is as healthy to enjoy sentiment as to enjoy jam.

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