Every true artist feels that he is touching transcendental truths; that his images are shadows of things seen through the veil.
Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?
The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people.
Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them.
The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.
There is nothing the matter with Americans except their ideals. The real American is all right; it is the ideal American who is all wrong.
If I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon against pride.
The word ‘good’ has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.
Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.
Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
Cruelty is, perhaps, the worst kid of sin. Intellectual cruelty is certainly the worst kind of cruelty.
It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.
I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.
Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.
People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
The simplification of anything is always sensational.
A businessman is the only man who is forever apologizing for his occupation.
A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice.
A yawn is a silent shout.