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.

My brain and this world don't fit each other; and there's an end of it.

There is a certain poetic value, and that a genuine one, in this sense of having missed the full meaning of things. There is beauty, not only in wisdom, but in this dazed and dramatic ignorance.

The great Gaels of Ireland are the men that God made mad, For all their wars are merry, and all their songs are sad.

Correctitude implies nowadays a formal or fastidious use of words; and what is wanted is not so much the correct as the living use of words. It is the memory of the meaning of a word which is the life of the word.

Man is always something worse or something better than an animal; and a mere argument from animal perfection never touches him at all. Thus, in sex no animal is either chivalrous or obscene. And thus no animal invented anything so bad as drunkeness - or so good as drink.

The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.