He had found the thing which the modern people call Impressionism, which is another name for that final scepticism which can find no floor to the universe.

There is no logical connection between flying and laying eggs.

There are a great many good people, and a great many sane people here this afternoon. Unfortunately, by a kind of coincidence, all the good people are mad, and all the sane people are wicked.

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

Then I only wondered who put the toys in the stocking; now I wonder who put the stocking by the bed, and the bed in the room, and the room in the house, and the house on the planet, and the great planet in the void.

What people call impartiality may simply mean indifference, and what people call partiality may simply mean mental activity.

If we are bound to improve, we need not trouble to improve. The pure doctrine of progress is the best of all reasons for not being a progressive.