No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.
Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
The doctrine of the Kingdom of Heaven, which was the main teaching of Jesus, is certainly one of the most revolutionary doctrines that ever stirred and changed human thought.
History is a race between education and catastrophe.
The uglier a man's legs are, the better he plays golf - it's almost a law.
I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.
Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own.
Heresies are experiments in man's unsatisfied search for truth.
The past is but the past of a beginning.
Cynicism is humor in ill health.
There's nothing wrong in suffering, if you suffer for a purpose. Our revolution didn't abolish danger or death. It simply made danger and death worthwhile.
The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do it.
Some people bear three kinds of trouble - the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have.
There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly. Ugliness is the measure of imperfection.
The New Deal is plainly an attempt to achieve a working socialism and avert a social collapse in America; it is extraordinarily parallel to the successive 'policies' and 'Plans' of the Russian experiment. Americans shirk the word 'socialism', but what else can one call it?
I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.
It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not pay with their own.
Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.
