The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.

The optimum population is modeled on the iceberg- eight-ninths below the water line, one-ninth above.

Happiness is a hard master, particularly other people's happiness.

The traveller's-eye view of men and women is not satisfying. A man might spend his life in trains and restaurants and know nothing of humanity at the end. To know, one must be an actor as well as a spectator.

Orthodoxy is the diehard of the world of thought. It learns not, neither can it forget.

Happiness is like coke — something you get as a by-product in the process of making something else.

Dying is almost the least spiritual of our acts, more strictly carnal even than the act of love. There are Death Agonies that are like the strainings of the Costive at stool.