Teach to the young, men's enduring truths, and let the learned amuse themselves with their passing errors.

The coming peril is the intellectual, educational, psychological and artistic overproduction, which, equally with economic overproduction, threatens the well-being of contemporary civilisation. People are inundated, blinded, deafened, and mentally paralysed by a flood of vulgar and tasteless externals, leaving them no time for leisure, thought, or creation from within themselves.

Most Americans are born drunk, and really require a little wine or beer to sober them.

Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.

The great ideals of the past failed not by being outlived (which must mean over-lived), but by not being lived enough. Mankind has not passed through the Middle Ages. Rather mankind has retreated from the Middle Ages in reaction and rout. The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and left untried.

I will not call it my philosophy; for I did not make it. God and humanity made it; and it made me.

I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.