There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.

In action, in desire, we must submit perpetually to the tyranny of outside forces; but in thought, in aspiration, we are free, free from our fellowmen, free from the petty planet on which our bodies impotently crawl, free even, while we live, from the tyranny of death.

Every increase in knowledge requires an increase in wisdom

There is an artist imprisoned in each one of us. Let him loose to spread joy everywhere.

The legacy of Greece to Western philosophy is Western philosophy.