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

It is the first law of practical courage. To be in the weakest camp is to be in the strongest school.

Even a bad shot is dignified when he accepts a duel.

children are simply human beings who are allowed to do what everyone else really desires to do, as for instance, to fly kites, or when seriously wronged to emit prolonged screams for several minutes.

Fairy tales are more than true.

We talk of wild animals but man is the only wild animal. It is man that has broken out. All other animals are tame animals; following the rugged respectability of the tribe or type.

The great misfortune of the modern English is not at all that they are more boastful than other people (they are not); it is that they are boastful about those particular things which nobody can boast of without losing them.