I left the fairy tales lying on the floor of the nursery, and I have not found any books so sensible since.

Every man is important if he loses his life;and every man is funny if he loses his hat and has to run after it.

When we look upon lives so human and yet so small, we feel as if we ourselves were enlarged to an embarrassing bigness of stature. We feel the same kind of obligation to these creatures that a deity might feel if he had created something that he could not understand.

People talk of the pathos and failure of plain women; but it is a more terrible thing that a beautiful woman may succeed in everything but womanhood.

Where does a wise man hide a leaf? In the forest. But what does he do if there is no forest? He grows a forest to hide it in.

Science in the modern world has many uses; its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich.

Cleanliness is not next to godliness nowadays, for cleanliness is made an essential and godliness is regarded as an offence.