All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim.

There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.

A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.

Continually one faces the horrible matter of making decisions. The solution is, as far as possible, to avoid conscious rational decisions and choices; simply to do what you find yourself doing; to float in the great current of life with as little friction as possible; to allow things to settle themselves, as indeed they do with the most infallible certainty.

Man is unconquerable because he can make even his helplessness so entertaining. His motto seems to be "Even though He slay me, yet will I make fun of Him!

When Abraham Lincoln was murdered The one thing that interested Matthew Arnold Was that the assassin shouted in Latin As he lept on the stage This convinced Matthew There was still hope for America.

People like to imagine that because all our mechanical equipment moves so much faster, that we are thinking faster, too.