The longer I live, the more I realize that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time!

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.

You're only a beginner; and what you think is love, and interest, and all that, is not real love at all: three quarters of it is only unsatisfied curiosity.

Modern poverty is not the poverty that was blest in the Sermon on the Mount.

There is nothing so bad or so good that you will not find Englishmen doing it; but you will never find an Englishman in the wrong. He does everything on principle.

I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.

It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.