Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?
There are a whole lot of things in this world of ours you haven’t started wondering about yet.
A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened is as bad as one who does not know how to forget.
Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
We aim above the mark to hit the mark.
Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature!
As men’s prayers are a disease of the will, so are their creeds a disease of the intellect.
The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
All the things that truly matter, beauty, love, creativity, joy and inner peace arise from beyond the mind.
I like to be beholden to the great metropolitan English speech, the sea which receives tributaries from every region under heaven.
Socialists think profits are a vice; I consider losses the real vice.
From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.
Well, dinner would have been splendid!
By common consent of all the nations and all the ages the most valuable thing in this world is the homage of men, whether deserved or undeserved.
If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.
A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold.
Man is God’s highest present development. He is the latest thing in God.
I know of no such unquestionable badge and ensign of a sovereign mind as that of tenacity of purpose.
A healthy body is a guest chamber for the soul: a sick body is a prison.
Sexes make no Difference; since in Souls there is none: And they are the Subjects of Friendship.
Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but religiously follows the new.
