Children feel the whiteness of the lily with a graphic and passionate clearness which we cannot give them at all. The only thing we can give them is information-the information that if you break the lily in two it won't grow again.

"Are you a devil?" "I am a man," answered Father Brown gravely; "and therefore have all devils in my heart."

All democrats object to men being disqualified by the accident of birth; tradition objects to their being disqualified by the accident of death.

It is human to err; and the only final and deadly error, among all our errors, is denying that we have ever erred.

People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.

There is no obligation on us to be richer, or busier, or more efficient, or more productive, or more progressive, or any way worldlier or wealthier, if it does not make us happier.

The wise old fairy tales never were so silly as to say that the prince and the princess lived peacefully ever afterwards. The fairy tales said that the prince and princess lived happily ever afterwards; and so they did. They lived happily, although it is very likely that from time to time they threw the furniture at each other.