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

The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.

I do not feel any contempt for an atheist, who is often a man limited and constrained by his own logic to a very sad simplification.

The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world.

There is a law written in the darkest of the Books of Life, and it is this: If you look at a thing nine hundred and ninety-nine times, you are perfectly safe; if you look at it the thousandth time, you are in frightful danger of seeing it for the first time.

All democrats object to men being disqualified by the accident of birth; tradition objects to their being disqualified by the accident of death.

In the struggle for existence, it is only on those who hang on for ten minutes after all is hopeless, that hope begins to dawn.