Human anger is a higher thing than what is called divine discontent. For you must be angry with something; but you can be discontented with everything.

Man must have just enough faith in himself to have adventures, and just enough doubt of himself to enjoy them.

A fairly clear line separated advertisement from art. ... The first effect of the triumph of the capitalist (if we allow him to triumph) will be that that line of demarcation will entirely disappear. There will be no art that might not just as well be advertisement.

It might reasonably be maintained that the true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground. To be at last in such secure innocence that one can juggle with the universe and the stars, to be so good that one can treat everything as a joke - that may be, perhaps, the real end and final holiday of human souls.

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

You can't have the family farm without the family.

What are we going to do?" asked the Professor. "At this moment," said Syme, with a scientific detachment, "I think we are going to smash into a lamppost.