The first fact about the celebration of a birthday is that it is a way of affirming defiantly, and even flamboyantly, that it is a good thing to be alive.

Modern nature-worship is all upside down. Trees and fields ought to be the ordinary things; terraces and temples ought to be extraordinary. I am on the side of the man who lives in the country and wants to go to London.

If our caricaturists do not hate their enemies, it is not because they are too big to hate them, but because their enemies are not big enough to hate.

Only friendliness produces friendship. And we must look far deeper into the soul of man for the thing that produces friendliness.

Though I believe in liberalism, I find it difficult to believe in liberals.

When learned men begin to use their reason, then I generally discover that they haven't got any.

There are a good many fools who call me a friend, and also a good many friends who call me a fool.