We actually love ourselves more than we love joy.

I would never commit the positively anti-social action of robbing a bank, or worse still, working in one.

The more truly we can see life as a fairytale, the more clearly the tale resolves itself into war with the dragon who is wasting fairyland.

No man knows he is young while he is young.

The theory of free speech, that truth is so much larger and stranger and more many-sided than we know of, that it is very much better at all costs to hear everyone's account of it, is a theory which has been justified on the whole by experiment, but which remains a very daring and even a very surprising theory. It is really one of the great discoveries of the modern time.

The most poetical thing in the world is not being sick.

I always like a dog so long as he isn't spelled backward.