“The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.”
Courage“No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.”
Best“The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.”
Courage“What affects men sharply about a foreign nation is not so much finding or not finding familiar things it is rather not finding them in the familiar place.”
Men“Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.”
Respect“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“I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.”
Happiness“When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.”
Life“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“Brave men are all vertebrates they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.”
Men“The most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless modern philosopher. Compared to him, burglars and bigamists are essentially moral men.”
Men“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.”
Great“I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.”
Best“The family is the test of freedom because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.”
Family“The word 'good' has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.”
Good“Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young.”
Experience“There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.”
Architecture“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.”
Health“Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul but his life.”
Men“Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised.”
Happiness“We make our friends we make our enemies but God makes our next door neighbour.”
God“People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make.”
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