The humorous look of children is perhaps the most endearing of all the bonds that hold the Cosmos together.

The long words are not the hard words, it is the short words that are hard. There is much more metaphysical subtlety in the word "damn" than in the word "degeneration."

The noble temptation to see too much in everything.

Bigotry is an incapacity to conceive seriously the alternative to a proposition.

Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.

Do not look at the faces in the illustrated papers. Look at the faces in the street.

Poets do not go mad; but chess-players do. Mathematicians go mad, and cashiers; but creative artists very seldom. I am not, as will be seen, in any sense attacking logic: I only say that this danger does lie in logic, not in imagination.