Abuse a man unjustly, and you will make friends for him.

When you say that you agree to a thing in principle you mean that you have not the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.

The ability to manage well doesn't make much difference if you're not even in the right jungle.

How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is clearly Ocean.

It is the mind that maketh good of ill, that maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.

If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found time to conquer the world.

How sweet the words of Truth, breath'd from the lips of Love.

They also serve who only stand and wait.

When a man wantonly destroys one of the works of man we call him a vandal. When he destroys one of the works of God we call him a sportsman.

has the cat got your tongue?

There is only one honest impulse at the bottom of Puritanism, and that is the impulse to punish the man with a superior capacity for happiness.

The power of imagination created the illusion that my vision went much farther than the naked eye could actually see.

It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure.

Albrecht's Law: Social innovations tend to the level of minimum tolerable well being.

Arouse the mind without resting it on anything.

Golf, like measles, should be caught young.

The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Fair play with others is primarily the practice of not blaming them for anything that is wrong with us. We tend to rub our guilty conscience against others the way we wipe dirty fingers on a rag. This is as evil a misuse of others as the practice of exploitation.

A parlous boy. -King Richard III. Act ii. Sc. 4.

If most of us are ashamed of shabby clothes and shoddy furniture, let us be more ashamed of shabby ideas and shoddy philosophies. . . . It would be a sad situation if the wrapper were better than the meat wrapped inside it.