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