A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.

Modern man is educated to understand foreign languages and misunderstand foreigners.

A modern vegetarian is also a teetotaler, yet there is no obvious connection between consuming vegetables and not consuming fermented vegetables. A drunkard, when lifted laboriously out of the gutter, might well be heard huskily to plead that he had fallen there through excessive devotion to a vegetable diet.

There are no boring subjects, only disinterested minds.

Men rush towards complexity, but they yearn towards simplicity. They try to be kings; but they dream of being shepherds.

As long as the vision of heaven is always changing, the vision of earth will be exactly the same. No ideal will remain long enough to be realized, or even partly realized. The modern young man will never change his environment; for he will always change his mind.

Surprise is the secret of joy.