Thrashing is not the most noticeably awful of disappointments. Not to have attempted is the genuine disappointment.

I believe that ideal character in its perfection is potentially in every man who is born into the world.

"Old times" never come back and I suppose it's just as well. What comes back is a new morning every day in the year, and that's better.

Mankind is the grandest and surest artist of all, and history as it clarifies is, in pure fact, an artistic process, a creation in its fullness of the beautiful soul.

If you can't have faith in what is held up to you for faith, you must find things to believe in yourself, for a life without faith in something is too narrow a space to live.

A marvellous power of expression over language often distinguishes genius; but Shakespeare in his phrases seems independent of the bonds of language as of the bonds of metre.

Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse. Murphy's First Corollary If you tell the boss you were late for work because you had a flat tire, the next morning you will have a flat tire.