Men invent new ideals because they dare not attempt old ideals. They look forward with enthusiasm, because they are afraid to look back.

My attitude toward progress has passed from antagonism to boredom. I have long ceased to argue with people who prefer Thursday to Wednesday because it is Thursday.

A beetle may or may not be inferior to a man - the matter awaits demonstration; but if he were inferior by ten thousand fathoms, the fact remains that there is probably a beetle view of things of which a man is entirely ignorant. If he wishes to conceive that point of view, he will scarcely reach it by persistently revelling in the fact that he is not a beetle.

The whole secret of mysticism is this: that man can understand everything by the help of something he cannot understand.

You can't have the family farm without the family.

Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it.

A third-class carriage is a community, while a first-class carriage is a place of wild hermits.