The home is not the one tame place in the world of adventure. It is the one wild place in the world of rules and set tasks.

humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle

The most poetical thing in the world is not being sick.

When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything.

Either criticism is no good at all (a very defensible position) or else criticism means saying about an author the very things that would have made him jump out of his boots.

A beetle may or may not be inferior to a man - the matter awaits demonstration; but if he were inferior by ten thousand fathoms, the fact remains that there is probably a beetle view of things of which a man is entirely ignorant. If he wishes to conceive that point of view, he will scarcely reach it by persistently revelling in the fact that he is not a beetle.

The beautification of the world is not a work of nature, but a work of art, then it involves an artist.