No man’s really any good till he knows how bad he is, or might be...
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.
A third-class carriage is a community, while a first-class carriage is a place of wild hermits.
Original sin is the only doctrine that’s been empirically validated by 2,000 years of human history.
The long words are not the hard words, it is the short words that are hard. There is much more metaphysical subtlety in the word “damn” than in the word “degeneration.”
The Christian pities men because they are dying, and the Buddhist pities them because they are living. The Christian is sorry for what damages the life of a man; but the Buddhist is sorry for him because he is alive.
There is only one reason an intelligent person doesn’t believe in miracles. He or she believes in materialism.