Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young.
Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.
The man who throws a bomb is an artist, because he prefers a great moment to everything.
Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, t...
To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it.
Some men never feel small, but these are the few men who are.
What affects men sharply about a foreign nation is not so much finding or not finding familiar things it is rather not finding them in the familiar place.
The most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless modern philosopher. Compared to him, burglars and bigamists are essentially moral men.
Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdo...
Man is an exception, whatever else he is. If he is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust. If it is not true that a divine being fell, then we can only say that one of the animals went...
There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.
White... is not a mere absence of colour it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black... God paints in many colours but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost sai...
Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals nay it is treachery to comrades.