The one created thing which we cannot look at is the one thing in the light of which we look at everything.
Sticking to one woman is a small price to pay for so much as having seen one woman.
I am at one with my duality.
Whatever else we may say of our own age, for good or evil, nobody is likely to call it an Age of Reason.
No man’s really any good till he knows how bad he is, or might be...
Men rush toward complexity; but yearn for simplicity.
A great curse has fallen upon modern life with the discovery of the vastness of the word Education.
Surprise is the secret of joy.
I defy anybody to say what are the rights of a citizen, if they do not include the control of his own diet in relation to his own health.
There must be some good in the life of battle, for so many good men have enjoyed being soldiers.
Instead of the machine being a giant to which the man is the pygmy, we must at last reverse the proportions until man is a giant to whom the machine is the toy.
If a man only likes victory he must always come late for the battle.
For Scotland has a double dose of the poison called heredity; the sense of blood in the aristocrat, the sense of doom in the Calvinist.
You never know the best about men until you know the worst about them.
There is more to life than increasing its speed. Gandhi gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth it? Richard Bach Life exists for the love of music or beautiful things.
Our digestions, going sacredly and silently right, that is the foundation of all poetry.
When a woman puts up her fists to a man she is putting herself in the only posture in which he is not afraid of her.
Gratitude produced the most purely joyful moments that have been known to man.
I am a bad reporter because everything seems to me worth reporting; and a bad reviewer because every sentence in every book suggests a separate essay.
If, therefore, nonsense is really to be the literature of the future, it must have its own version of the Cosmos to offer; the world must not only be tragic, romantic, and religious, it must be nonsensical also.