The person who is really in revolt is the optimist, who generally lives and dies in a desperate and suicidal effort to persuade other people how good they are.

Boys like romantic tales; but babies like realistic tales-because they find them romantic.

Men may keep a sort of level of good, but no man has ever been able to keep on one level of evil.

Oh, most unhappy man,' he cried, 'try to be happy! You have red hair like your sister.' My red hair, like red flames, shall burn up the world,' said Gregory.

Just the other day in the Underground I enjoyed the pleasure of offering my seat to three ladies.

We are like the penny, because we have the image of the king stamped on us, the divine king.

No one can understand Paris and its history who does not understand that its fierceness is the balance and justification of its frivolity. It is called a city of pleasure; but it may also very specially be called a city of pain. The crown of roses is also a crown of thorns. Its people are too prone to hurt others, but quite ready also to hurt themselves. They are martyrs for religion, they are martyrs for irreligion; they are even martyrs for immorality.