of being strong and brave. The strong can not be brave. Only the weak can be brave; and yet again, in practice, only those who can be brave can be trusted, in time of doubt, to be strong.

You say grace before meals. All right. But I say grace before the concert and the opera, and grace before the play and pantomime, and grace before I open a book, and grace before sketching, painting, swimming, fencing, boxing, walking, playing, dancing and grace before I dip the pen in the ink.

God is like the sun; you cannot look at it, but without it you cannot look at anything else.

The human race, to which so many of my readers belong, has been playing at children's games from the beginning, and will probably do it till the end, which is a nuisance for the few people who grow up.

An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

If it's worth doing, it's worth doing badly. (on not perfectionism to put things off) .

We are all in the same boat, in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty.

Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly.

The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.