Why should I laugh?' asked the old man. 'Madness in youth is true wisdom. Go, young man, follow your dream, and if you do not find the happiness that…

- Andrew Lang

Among the various forms of science which are reaching and affecting the new popular tradition, we have reckoned Anthropology. Pleasantly enough, Anth…

- Andrew Lang

You can cover a great deal of country in books.

- Andrew Lang

I am the batsman and the bat, / I am the bowler and the ball, / The umpire, the pavilion cat, / The roller, pitch, and stumps, and all.

- Andrew Lang

O grant me a house by the beach of a bay, Where the waves can be surly in winter, and play With the sea-weed in summer, ye bountiful powers! And I'd …

- Andrew Lang

And remember that the danger which is most to be feared is never the danger we are most afraid of.

- Andrew Lang

Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who really care for…

- Andrew Lang

Either a wise man will not go into bunkers, or, being in, he will endure such things as befall him with patience.

- Andrew Lang

Of all animals, he alone attains to the Contemplative Life.

- Andrew Lang