A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.
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.
A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.
Let a man walk ten miles steadily on a hot summer's day along a dusty English road, and he will soon discover why beer was invented.
An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.
You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution.
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 said so gaudily, as when He paints in white.
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. Unless a particular man made New Year resolutions, he would make no resolutions. Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective.
'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.'
The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any of them.
Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
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.
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.
Journalism largely consists of saying 'Lord Jones is Dead' to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive.
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.
The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people.
How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.
The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.
