Happiness and beauty are by-products. Folly is the direct pursuit of happiness and beauty.

When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.

Our way of getting an army able to fight the German army is to declare war on Germany just as if we had such an army, and then trust to the appalling resultant peril and disaster to drive us into wholesale enlistment.

All progress depends upon the unreasonable person.

The real Brahms is nothing more than a sentimental voluptuary. rather tiresomely addicted to dressing himself up as Handel or Beethoven and making a prolonged and intolerable noise.

Absolute honesty is as absurd an abstraction as an absolute temperature or an absolute value.

I was taught when I was young that if people would only love one another, all would be well with the world. I found when I tried to put that into practice, not only were other people seldom lovable but I wasn't very lovable myself.