Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
Thanks are the highest form of thought.
Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
In all legends men have thought of women as sublime separately but horrible in a herd.
The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.
Whenever you remove any fence, always pause long enough to ask why it was put there in the first place.
The vulgar man is always the most distinguished, for the very desire to be distinguished is vulgar.
The only way to be sure of catching a train is to miss the one before it.
Those who leave the tradition of truth do not escape into something which we call Freedom. They only escape into something else, which we call Fashion.
The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.
Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.
There is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.
To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it.
A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.
One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long; and the age of the great epics is past.
When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?
I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.