To downgrade the human mind is bad theology.

A man running after a hat is not half so ridiculous as a man running after a woman.

There cannot be a nation of millionaires, and there never has been a nation of Utopian comrades; but there have been any number of nations of tolerably contented peasants.

Business, especially big business, is now organized like an army. It is, as some would say, a sort of mild militarism without bloodshed; as I say, a militarism without the military virtues.

We are all ordinary people. And it's the extraordinary people Who know it.

People seem to fight about things very unsuitable for fighting. They make a frightful noise in support of very quiet things. They knock each other about in the name of very fragile things.

When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.