We need to stop apologizing for celebrating life. We need to stop apologizing for wanting to protect an individual's right to build a business.
Great is truth but still greater from a practical point of view is silence...
One of the great attractions of patriotism - it fulfills our worst wishes. In...
Like every man of sense and good feeling I abominate work.
It's with bad sentiments that one makes good novels.
Like every other good thing in this world leisure and culture have to be...
Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal...
A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one it comes as...
Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions it's walled and roofed with...
Uncontrolled the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle cutting...
God isn't compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal...
There's only one effectively redemptive sacrifice the sacrifice of self-will...
The worst enemy of life freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy...
Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the...
A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic...
From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history)...
Experience is not what happens to you it's what you do with what happens to...
Experience teaches only the teachable.
The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the...
Dream in a pragmatic way.
A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to...
Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed...
I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be...
Cynical realism is the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an...
It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth goodness and beauty...
Beauty is worse than wine it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
The finest works of art are precious among other reasons because they make...
Perhaps it's good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he's happy?...
Europe is so well gardened that it resembles a work of art a scientific...
We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.
The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that from...
The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age which...
