Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination.
Miracles, in the sense of phenomena we cannot explain, surround us on every hand: life itself is the miracle of miracles.
Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.
England and America are two countries separated by the same language.
Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.
Political necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes.
The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.
I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.
We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.
Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad.
One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven’t and don’t.
The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.
I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.
The great advantage of a hotel is that it is a refuge from home life.
A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
Old men are dangerous: it doesn’t matter to them what is going to happen to the world.
I have studied him – the wonderful man – and in my opinion far from being an anti-Christ he must be called the saviour of humanity.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.