The timidity of the child or the savage is entirely reasonable; they are alarmed at this world, because this world is a very alarming place. They dislike being alone because it is verily and indeed an awful idea to be alone. Barbarians fear the unknown for the same reason that Agnostics worship it - because it is a fact.

When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it. The two things that nearly all of us have thoroughly and really been through are childhood and youth. And though we would not have them back again on any account, we feel that they are both beautiful, because we have drunk them dry.

[Fairy tales] make rivers run with wine only to make us remember, for one wild moment, that they run with water.

Time and again, the Faith has to all appearances gone to the dogs. But each time, it was the dog that died.

There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.

I defy anybody to say what are the rights of a citizen, if they do not include the control of his own diet in relation to his own health.

Men invent new ideals because they dare not attempt old ideals. They look forward with enthusiasm, because they are afraid to look back.