When a politician is in opposition he is an expert on the means to some end; and when he is in office he is an expert on the obstacles to it.

The rolling stone rolls echoing from rock to rock; but the rolling stone is dead. The moss is silent because the moss is alive.

I still think sincere pessimism the unpardonable sin.

But they none of them create the psychological conditions in which I first saw, or desired to see, the flower.

It is because artists do not practise, patrons do not patronize, crowds do not assemble to reverently worship the great work of Doing Nothing, that the world has lost its philosophy and even failed to invent a new religion.

She had never really listened to anyone in her life; which, some said, was why she had survived.

Every one on the earth should believe that he has something to give to the world which cannot otherwise be given.