Is ditchwater dull? Naturalists with microscopes have told me that it teems with quiet fun.

Nothing taken for granted; everything received with gratitude; everything passed on with grace.

You'll never find the solution if you don't see the problem.

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.

For Tommy, on that hot and empty afternoon, was in a state of mind in which grown-up people go away and write books about their whole world, and stories about what it is like to be married, and plays about the important problems of modern times. Tommy, being only ten years old, was not able to do harm on this large and handsome scale.

A man looking at a hippopotamus may sometimes be tempted to regard a hippopotamus as an enormous mistake; but he is also bound to confess that a fortunate inferiority prevents him personally from making such mistakes.

He is a [sane] man who can have tragedy in his heart and comedy in his head.