Civilization has run on ahead of the soul of man, and is producing faster than he can think and give thanks.

There is more simplicity in the man who eats caviar on impulse than in the man who eats Grape-Nuts on principle.

The only people who seem to have nothing to do with the education of the children are the parents.

Contemporary society has become dry, not for lack of wonders but for lack of wonder.

The true object of human life is play.

Liberty is the very last idea that seems to occur to anybody, in considering any political or social proposal. It is only necessary for anybody for any reason to allege any evidence of any evil in any human practice, for people instantly to suggest that the practice should be suppressed by the police.

The function of the imagination is not to make strange things settled, so much as to make settled things strange.