In a world flagrant with the failures of civilization, what is there particularly immortal about our own?

God is like the sun; you cannot look at it, but without it you cannot look at anything else.

A nation that has nothing but its amusements will not be amused for long.

One of the great disadvantages of hurry is that it takes such a long time.

I will not call it my philosophy; for I did not make it. God and humanity made it; and it made me.

Grey is a colour that always seems on the eve of changing to some other colour.

We are to regard existence as a raid or great adventure; it is to be judged, therefore, not by what calamities it encounters, but by what flag it follows and what high town it assaults. The most dangerous thing in the world is to be alive; one is always in danger of one's life. But anyone who shrinks from that is a traitor to the great scheme and experiment of being.