This is, first and last, the real value of Christmas; in so far as the mythology remains at all it is a kind of happy mythology. Personally, of course, I believe in Santa Claus; but it is the season of forgiveness, and I will forgive others for not doing so.

Thinking means connecting things, and stops if they cannot be connected.

You may think a crime horrible because you could never commit it. I think it is horrible because I could commit it.

'My country, right or wrong' is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying 'My mother, drunk or sober.'

If you convey to a woman that something ought to be done, there is always a dreadful danger that she will suddenly do it.

A thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.

Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.