We fear men so much, because we fear God so little. One fear cures another. When man's terror scares you, turn your thoughts to the wrath of God.
Ten thousand women marched through the streets shouting, 'We will not be dictated to,' and went off and became stenographers.
Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction; for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it.
Just at present you only see the tree by the light of the lamp. I wonder when you would ever see the lamp by the light of the tree.
For when once people have begun to believe that prosperity is the reward of virtue, their next calamity is obvious. If prosperity is regarded as the reward of virtue it will be regarded as the symptom of virtue. Men will leave off the heavy task of m...
The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of Conservatives is to prevent mistakes from being corrected.
The pessimists believe that the cosmos is a clock that is running down; the progressives believe it is a clock that they themselves are winding up. But I happen to believe that the world is what we choose to make it, and that we are what we choose to...
Once I thought it delightful and astonishing to find a present so big that it only went halfway into the stocking. Now I am delighted and astonished every morning to find a present so big that it takes two stockings to hold it, and then leaves a grea...
The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
A man must love a thing very much if he practices it without any hope of fame or money, but even practice it without any hope of doing it well. Such a man must love the toils of the work more than any other man can love the rewards of it.
There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.
Men of science offer us health, an obvious benefit; it is only afterwards that we discover that by health, they mean bodily slavery and spiritual tedium.
They preferred writing about great men to writing about great hills; but they sat on the great hills to write it. They gave out much less about Nature, but they drank in, perhaps, much more. They painted the white robes of their holy virgins with the...
Men did not love Rome because she was great. She was great because they had loved her.
There was something of relative freedom in that feudal gesture of the vow; for no man asks vows from slaves anymore than from spades.
Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances that we know to be desperate.
There is more simplicity in the man who eats caviar on impulse than in the man who eats Grape-Nuts on principle.
The huge modern heresy is to alter the human soul to fit modern social conditions, instead of altering modern social conditions to fit the human soul.
We talk of wild animals but man is the only wild animal. It is man that has broken out. All other animals are tame animals; following the rugged respectability of the tribe or type.
The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.
His father cultivated art and self-realisation; his mother went in for simplicity and hygiene. Hence the child, during his tenderer years, was wholly unacquainted with any drink between the extremes of absinth and cocoa, of both of which he had a hea...
