“Brave men are all vertebrates they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.”
Men“Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.”
Marriage“Brave men are all vertebrates they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.”
Men“The man who throws a bomb is an artist, because he prefers a great moment to everything.”
Great“Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.”
Education“Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long and the age of the great epics is past.”
Age“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.”
Truth“Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.”
Art“When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?”
God“Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.”
Love“One sees great things from the valley only small things from the peak.”
Great“To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.”
Faith“There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.”
Architecture“A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching.”
Teacher“Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.”
Respect“Half a truth is better than no politics.”
Politics“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.”
God“Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.”
God“Women prefer to talk in twos, while men prefer to talk in threes.”
Men“Some men never feel small, but these are the few men who are.”
Men“The most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless modern philosopher. Compared to him, burglars and bigamists are essentially moral men.”
Men“The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.”
Courage