"The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that one is loved."

"A good laugh is a mighty good thing, a rather too scarce a good thing."

"Where the telescope ends, the microscope begins. Which of the two has the grander view?"

"Be like the bird that, pausing in her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing she hath wings."

"The intelligent man finds everything absurd."