I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act but I do believe in a fate that falls on men unless they act.
Silence is the unbearable repartee.
The mind that finds its way to wild places is the poet's but the mind that never finds its way back is the lunatic's.
Artistic temperament is a disease that afflicts amateurs.
New roads new ruts.
Leisure is being allowed to do nothing.
The true object of human life is play.
Facts as facts do not always create a spirit of reality because reality is a spirit.
It isn't that they can't see the solution it's that they can't see the problem.
Is dishwater dull? Naturalists with microscopes have told me that it teems with quiet fun.
Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
No man can be merry unless he is serious.
It matters very little whether a man is discontented in the name of pessimism or progress if his discontent does in fact paralyse his power of appreciating what he has got.
The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life in order to keep it.
Acceptance is the truest kinship with humanity.
He wondered why the pelican was the symbol of charity, except it was that it wanted a good deal of charity to admire a pelican.
I am not absent-minded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.
One may understand the cosmos but never the ego the self is more distant than any star.
There is one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the corner.
You say grace before meals. All right. But I say grace before the concert and the opera and grace before the play and pantomime and grace before I open a book and grace before sketching painting...