What was wonderful about childhood is that anything in it was a wonder. It was not merely a world full of miracles; it was a miraculous world.

If the apple hit Newton’s nose, Newton’s nose hit the apple.

There are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally. It may be conceded to the mathematician that four is twice two. But two is not twice one; two is two thousand times one.

Free verse is like free love; it is a contradiction in terms.

A nation is not going mad when it does extravagant things, so long as it does them in an extravagant spirit. But whenever we see things done wildly, but taken tamely, then the State is growing insane.

The power which makes a man able to entertain a good impulse is the same as that which enables him to make a good gun; it is imagination.

Tolerance is the virtue of those who don't believe anything.