No man is uninteresting when his hat is blown off and he has to scuttle after it down the street.

A boy in love is not mainly a calf but a poet.

It may be that all games are silly. But then, so are humans.

The days on which one has been the most inquisitive are among the days on which one has been happiest.

The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions.

The lovers of beauty must unite in a league, and carry out some great propagandist work through the country. They must demand the extermination of the bulldog and the dismantling of the cheap villa, both of which are responsible for a deal of our contentment amid ugliness.

There are two sorts of curiosity - the momentary and the permanent. The momentary is concerned with the odd appearance on the surface of things. The permanent is attracted by the amazing and consecutive life that flows on beneath the surface of things.