We should thank God for beer and burgundy by not drinking too much of them.
It is as healthy to enjoy sentiment as to enjoy jam.
It is impossible without humility to enjoy anything - even pride.
The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.
The hands that had made the sun and stars were too small to reach the huge heads of the cattle. Upon this paradox, we might almost say upon this jest, all the literature of our faith is founded.
Correctitude implies nowadays a formal or fastidious use of words; and what is wanted is not so much the correct as the living use of words. It is the memory of the meaning of a word which is the life of the word.