Even a bad shot is dignified when he accepts a duel.

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

Buddhism is not a creed, it is a doubt.

A thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.

Correctitude implies nowadays a formal or fastidious use of words; and what is wanted is not so much the correct as the living use of words. It is the memory of the meaning of a word which is the life of the word.

Every one of the great revolutionists, from Isaiah to Shelley, have been optimists. They have been indignant, not about the badness of existence, but about the slowness of men in realizing its goodness.

If you convey to a woman that something ought to be done, there is always a dreadful danger that she will suddenly do it.