There are two ways of dealing with nonsense in this world. One way is to put nonsense in the right place; as when people put nonsense into nursery rhymes. The other is to put nonsense in the wrong place; as when they put it into educational addresses, psychological criticisms, and complaints against nursery rhymes or other normal amusements of mankind.

THERE are no wise few; for in all men rages the folly of the Fall. Take your strongest, happiest, handsomest, best born, best bred, best instructed men on earth and give them special power for half an hour and because they are men they will begin to [perform] badly.

Aesthetes never do anything but what they are told.

We are like the penny, because we have the image of the king stamped on us, the divine king.

Unless a man becomes the enemy of an evil, he will not even become its slave but rather its champion.

No man's really any good till he knows how bad he is, or might be.

Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.