A man must be prepared not only to be a martyr but to be a fool. It is absurd to say that a man is ready to toil and die for his convictions if he is not even ready to wear a wreath around his head for them.”
Humility makes a man doubtful about his aims, which will make him stop working altogether.
The believers in miracles accept them (rightly or wrongly) because they have evidence for them. The disbelievers in miracles deny them (rightly or wrongly) because they have a doctrine against them.
It is as healthy to enjoy sentiment as to enjoy jam.
We are justified in enforcing good morals, for they belong to all mankind; but we are not justified in enforcing good manners, for good manners always mean our own manners.
Buddhism is not a creed, it is a doubt.
The mere brute pleasure of reading the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.
The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he that gets the most out of life...
A businessman is the only man who is forever apologizing for his occupation.
Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.
The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any of them.
Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised.
Coincidences are spiritual puns.
If I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon against pride.
The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.
Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
To love means loving the unlovable.
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...
Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.
