I have found, after a good deal of consideration, that the best place to seek God is in a garden. You can dig for Him here.

And so, to the end of history, murder shall breed murder, always in the name of right and honor and peace, until the gods are tired of blood and create a race that can understand.

The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation, because occupation means pre-occupation; and the pre-occupied person is neither happy nor unhappy, but simply alive and active. That is why it is necessary to happiness that one should be tired.

Property, said Proudhon, is theft. This is the only perfect truism that has been uttered on the subject.

Just as the historian can teach no real history until he has cured his readers of the romantic delusion that the greatness of a queen consists in her being a pretty woman and having her head cut off, so the playwright of the first order can do nothing with his audience until he has cured them of looking at the stage through the keyhole, and sniffing round the theatre as prurient people sniff round the divorce court.

A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.

Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.