The vulgar man is always the most distinguished, for the very desire to be distinguished is vulgar.

I always like a dog so long as he isn't spelled backward.

One pleasure attached to growing older is that many things seem to be growing younger; growing fresher and more lively than we once supposed them to be.

No sceptical philosopher can ask any questions that may not equally be asked by a tired child on a hot afternoon.

The only words that ever satisfied me as describing nature are the terms used in fairy books, charm, spell, enchantment; they express the arbitrariness of the fact and its mystery.

Pessimism is not in being tired of evil but in being tired of good. Despair does not lie in being weary of suffering, but in being weary of joy. It is when for some reason or other good things in a society no longer work that the society begins to decline; when its food does not feed, when its cures do not cure, when its blessings refuse to bless.

Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.