Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long and the age of the great epics is past.
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.
If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.
Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden heaven is a playground.
The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind.
The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.
Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper.
Science in the modern world has many uses its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich.
Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.
True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare.
Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.
Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised.
'My country, right or wrong' is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying 'My mother, drunk or sober.'
Women prefer to talk in twos, while men prefer to talk in threes.
Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
We make our friends we make our enemies but God makes our next door neighbour.
All architecture is great architecture after sunset perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.