Being 'contented' ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position.

A great curse has fallen upon modern life with the discovery of the vastness of the word Education.

Hope means hoping when things are hopeless, or it is no virtue at all... As long as matters are really hopeful, hope is mere flattery or platitude; it is only when everything is hopeless that hope begins to be a strength.

Dear Sir: Regarding your article 'What's Wrong with the World?' I am. Yours truly.

Passion makes every detail important.

I did try to found a little heresy of my own; and when I had put the last touches to it, I discovered that it was orthodoxy.

The world will never starve for want of wonders; but only for want of wonder.