Cynicism is humor in ill health.
One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own.
The doctrine of the Kingdom of Heaven, which was the main teaching of Jesus, is certainly one of the most revolutionary doctrines that ever stirred and changed human thought.
If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.
Heresies are experiments in man's unsatisfied search for truth.
In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do it.
Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not pay with their own.
Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.
Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that reared him.
Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.
The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.
Our true nationality is mankind.
After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.
The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.
In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.
The past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.
The uglier a man's legs are, the better he plays golf - it's almost a law.
