One must somehow find a way of loving the world without trusting it; somehow one must love the world without being worldly.

I always like a dog so long as he isn't spelled backward.

Ivory may not be so white as snow, but the whole Arctic continent does not make ivory black.

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

It was not the house that grew dull, but I that grew dull in it. My wife was better than all women, and yet I could not feel it.

The idea of private property universal but private, the idea of families free but still families, of domesticity democratic but still domestic, of one man one house - this remains the real vision and magnet of mankind. The world may accept something more official and general, less human and intimate. But the world will be like a broken-hearted woman who makes a humdrum marriage because she may not make a happy one; Socialism may be the world's deliverance, but it is not the world's desire.

Leisure is being allowed to do nothing.