Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers.

For children are innocent and love justice, while most of us are wicked and naturally prefer mercy.

Romance is the combination of something that is strange with something that is secure.

Literature and fiction are two entirely different things. Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.

The humorous look of children is perhaps the most endearing of all the bonds that hold the Cosmos together. Their top-heavy dignity is more touching than any humility; their solemnity gives us more hope for all things than a thousand carnivals of optimism; their large and lustrous eyes seem to hold all the stars in their astonishment; their fascinating absence of nose seems to give to us the most perfect hint of the humour that awaits us in the kingdom of heaven.

For fear of the newspapers politicians are dull, and at last they are too dull even for the newspapers.

People seem to fight about things very unsuitable for fighting. They make a frightful noise in support of very quiet things. They knock each other about in the name of very fragile things.