A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.

Is ditchwater dull? Naturalists with microscopes have told me that it teems with quiet fun.

People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make.

The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic asylums.

...the primary paradox that man is superior to all the things around him and yet is at their mercy.

I would not say that old men grow wise, for men never grow wise; and many old men retain a very attractive childishness and cheerful innocence. Elderly people are often much more romantic than younger people, and sometimes even more adventurous, having begun to realize how many things they do not know.

We have all forgotten what we really are. All that we call common sense and rationality and practicality and positivism only means that for certain dead levels of our life we forget that we have forgotten. All that we call spirit and art and ecstasy only means that for one awful instant we remember that we forget.