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

Do not be proud of the fact that your grandmother was shocked at something which your are accustomed to seeing or hearing without being shocked. ... It may be that your grandmother was an extremely lively and vital animal and that you are a paralytic.

The disadvantage of men not knowing the past is that they do not know the present. History is a hill or high point of vantage, from which alone men see the town in which they live or the age in which they are living.

Modern man is educated to understand foreign languages and misunderstand foreigners.

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

Thrift is poetic because it is creative; waste is unpoetic because it is waste.

It seems a pity that psychology has destroyed all our knowledge of human nature.