It is better to speak wisdom foolishly like the saints than to speak folly wisely like the deans.

You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.

Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.

It was the mystical dogma of Bentham and Adam Smith and the rest, that some of the worst of human passions would turn out to be all for the best. It was the mysterious doctrine that selfishness would do the work of unselfishness.

In anything that does cover the whole of your life - in your philosophy and your religion - you must have mirth. If you do not have mirth you will certainly have madness.

All good men are international. Nearly all bad men are cosmopolitan. If we are to be international we must be national.

The word good has many meanings.