Do not be proud of the fact that your grandmother was shocked at something which your are accustomed to seeing or hearing without being shocked. ... It may be that your grandmother was an extremely lively and vital animal and that you are a paralytic.

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

The determining bulk of Scotch people had heard of golf ever since they had heard of God and often considered the two as of equal importance.

Jesus promised his disciples three things—that they would be completely fearless, absurdly happy, and in constant trouble.

And we were angry and poor and happy, And proud of seeing our names in print.

A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice.

Americans have a taste for…rocking-chairs. A flippant critic might suggest that they select rocking-chairs so that, even when they are sitting down, they need not be sitting still. Something of this restlessness in the race may really be involved in the matter; but I think the deeper significance of the rocking-chair may still be found in the deeper symbolism of the rocking-horse. I think there is behind all this fresh and facile use of wood a certain spirit that is childish in the good sense of the word; something that is innocent, and easily pleased.