Being is the great explainer.
Through our own recovered innocence we discern the innocence of our neighbors.
If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.
All endeavor calls for the ability to tramp the last mile, shape the last plan, endure the last hours toil. The fight to the finish spirit is the one… characteristic we must posses if we are to face the future as finishers.
None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.
We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy.
Youth gets together with their materials to build a bridge to the moon or maybe a palace on earth; then in middle age they decide to build a woodshed with them instead.
I could not find the world if I searched ten years. I’ve forgotten the road by which I came.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
At seventy-seven it is time to be in earnest.
Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.
My facts shall be falsehoods to the common sense. I would so state facts that they shall be significant, shall be myths or mythologies. Facts which the mind perceived, thoughts which the body thought – with these I deal.
A crank is someone with a new idea – until it catches on.
We rarely find anyone who can say he has lived a happy life, and who, content with his life, can retire from the world like a satisfied guest.
Tread softly, Breathe peacefully, Laugh hysterically.
An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.
If they had not landed there would be some reason for celebrating the fact.
True irreverence is disrespect for another man’s god.
There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.
Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.
At the bottom of all the tributes paid to democracy is the little man walking into the little booth with a little pencil, making a little cross on a little bit of paper. No amount of rhetoric or voluminous discussion can possibly diminish the overwhelming importance of that point.
You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity.
