The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.

It [feminism] is mixed up with a muddled idea that women are free when they serve their employers but slaves when they help their husbands.

Where does a wise man kick a pebble? On the beach. Where does a wise man hide a leaf? In the forest.

We all live in the past, because there is nothing else to live in. To live in the present is like proposing to sit on a pin. It is too minute, it is too slight a support, it is too uncomfortable a posture, and it is of necessity followed immediately by totally different experiences, analogous to those of jumping up with a yell.

Progress is the mother of problems.

Saint George he was for England, And before he killed the dragon he drank a pint of English ale out of an English flagon.

It is impossible without humility to enjoy anything - even pride.