The most valuable book we can read, about countries we have visited, is that which recalls to us something that we did notice, but did not notice that we noticed.

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

Love is not blind; that is the last thing that it is. Love is bound; and the more it is bound the less it is blind.

As regards moral courage, then, it is not so much that the public schools support it feebly, as that they suppress it firmly.

Nine times out of ten it is the coarse word that condemns an evil, and the refined word that excuses it.

I need not pause to explain that crime is not a disease. It is criminology that is a disease.

The supreme adventure is being born. There we do walk suddenly into a splendid and startling trap... When we step into the family, by the act of being born, we do step into a world which is incalculable, into a world which has its own strange laws, into a world which could do without us, into a world we have not made. In other words, when we step into the family we step into a fairy-tale.