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