The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.

The Party System was founded on one national notion of fair play. It was the notion that folly and futility should be fairly divided between both sides.

A man was meant to be doubtful about himself, but undoubting about the truth; this has been exactly reversed.

This is, first and last, the real value of Christmas; in so far as the mythology remains at all it is a kind of happy mythology. Personally, of course, I believe in Santa Claus; but it is the season of forgiveness, and I will forgive others for not doing so.

Imagination does not breed insanity. Exactly what does breed insanity is reason. Poets do not go mad, but chess players do.

The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children.

I have myself a poetical enthusiasm for pigs, and the paradise of my fancy is one where pigs have wings. But it is only men, especially wise men, who discuss whether pigs can fly; we have no particular proof that pigs ever discuss it.