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

Life is serious all the time, but living cannot be. You may have all the solemnity you wish in your neckties, but in anything important (such as sex, death, and religion), you must have mirth or you will have madness.

The good Bishop of Assisi expressed a sort of horror at the hard life which the Little Brothers lived at the Portiuncula, without comforts, without possessions, eating anything they could get and sleeping anyhow on the ground. St. Francis answered him with that curious and almost stunning shrewdness which the unworldly can sometimes wield like a club of stone. He said, 'If we had any possessions, we should need weapons and laws to defend them.

The home is not the one tame place in the world of adventure. It is the one wild place in the world of rules and set tasks.

A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching.

What are we going to do?" asked the Professor. "At this moment," said Syme, with a scientific detachment, "I think we are going to smash into a lamppost.

I defy anybody to say what are the rights of a citizen, if they do not include the control of his own diet in relation to his own health.