He walked by instinct along one white road, on which early birds hopped and sang, and found himself outside a fenced garden. There he saw the sister of Gregory, the girl with the gold-red hair, cutting lilac before breakfast, with the great unconscious gravity of a girl.

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.

I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I believed in liberals.

I said to him, "Shall I tell you where the men are who believe most in themselves? For I can tell you. I know of men who believe in themselves more colossally than Napoleon or Caesar. I know where flames the fixed star of certainty and success. I can guide you to the thrones of the Super-men. The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic asylums.

When giving treats to friends or children, give them what they like, emphatically not what is good for them.

There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.

And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.