A man must love a thing very much if he not only practises it without any hope of fame and money but even practises it without any hope of doing it well.
They said that I should lose my ideals and begin to believe in the methods of practical politicians. Now, I have not lost my ideals in the least; my faith in fundamentals is exactly what it always was...
We all disapprove of prostitution; but we do not all approve of purity. The only way to discuss the social evil is to get at once to the social ideal. We can all see the national madness; but what is...
The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
Angels fly because they take themselves lightly.
Satan fell by the force of gravity.
To be simple is the best thing in the world.
Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump you may be freeing him from being a camel.
A great city is the place to escape the true drama of provincial life and find solace in fantasy.
A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.
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.
Silence is the unbearable repartee.
He who lives in the future lives in a featureless blank he lives in impersonality he lives in Nirvana. The past is democratic because it is a people. The future is despotic because it is a caprice...
True contentment... is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare.
It may be conceded to the mathematicians that four is twice two. But two is not twice one; two is two thousand times one.
The classes that wash most are those that work least.
A tragedy means always a man's struggle with that which is stronger than man.
Large organization is loose organization. Nay it would be almost as true to say that organization is always disorganization.
The true object of human life is play.
Forgiving means to pardon the unpardonable faith means believing the unbelievable and hoping means to hope when things are hopeless.