Man does not live by soap alone and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it.
Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
The word 'good' has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.
One sees great things from the valley only small things from the peak.
The family is the test of freedom because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.
The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.
All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.
A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching.
Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.
I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.
Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
Brave men are all vertebrates they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.
The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land.
Half a truth is better than no politics.
Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.
A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.