"Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul but his life."
"Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long; and the age of the great epics is past."
"All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change."
"When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude."
"The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground."
"I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder."
"Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised."
"The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost."
"Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all."
"A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition."
"The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind."
"Man does not live by soap alone; and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it."
"No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete."
"Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another."
"Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling."
"Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere."
"Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame."