When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President I'm beginning to believe it.
The only defensible war is a war of defense.
A man who says that no patriot should attack the war until it is over... is...
In matters of truth the fact that you don't want to publish something is...
The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land it is at last...
The traveler sees what he sees the tourist sees what he has come to see.
A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching.
I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.
Science in the modern world has many uses its chief use however is to...
Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their...
True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of...
Half a truth is better than no politics.
Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes our...
All slang is metaphor and all metaphor is poetry.
The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
To be clever enough to get all that money one must be stupid enough to want...
What affects men sharply about a foreign nation is not so much finding or not...
Some men never feel small but these are the few men who are.
Fable is more historical than fact because fact tells us about one man and...
Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never...
Brave men are all vertebrates they have their softness on the surface and...
The most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless modern philosopher....
Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not...
Women prefer to talk in twos while men prefer to talk in threes.
Marriage is an adventure like going to war.
Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
Love means to love that which is unlovable or it is no virtue at all.
The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for...
The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden heaven is a...
A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.
People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the...
The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it...
Happiness is a mystery like religion and should never be rationalised.
I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought and that...
The man who throws a bomb is an artist because he prefers a great moment to...
Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues capable of...
There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a...
Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode...
One sees great things from the valley only small things from the peak.
Democracy means government by the uneducated while aristocracy means...
It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.
We are justified in enforcing good morals for they belong to all mankind but...
A good novel tells us the truth about its hero but a bad novel tells us the...
The word 'good' has many meanings. For example if a man were to shoot his...
Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the...
If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman I...
White... is not a mere absence of colour it is a shining and affirmative...