Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.
The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden heaven is a playground.
One sees great things from the valley only small things from the peak.
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.
Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men.
In matters of truth the fact that you don't want to publish something is, nine times out of ten, a proof that you ought to publish it.
I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching.
Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.
Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young.
Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
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.
Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.
All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.
Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper.
I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.
The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense.
The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.
The family is the test of freedom because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.
It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.
People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make.
When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.
A good novel tells us the truth about its hero but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
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.
No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.
The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.
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.
Some men never feel small, but these are the few men who are.
Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.
I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
We make our friends we make our enemies but God makes our next door neighbour.
To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it.
The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.
The man who throws a bomb is an artist, because he prefers a great moment to everything.
The only defensible war is a war of defense.
A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.
Brave men are all vertebrates they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.
All architecture is great architecture after sunset perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.
Love means to love that which is unlovable or it is no virtue at all.
Science in the modern world has many uses its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich.