There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.

Cleanliness is not next to godliness nowadays, for cleanliness is made an essential and godliness is regarded as an offence.

There is no great harm in the theorist who makes up a new theory to fit a new event. But the theorist who starts with a false theory and then sees everything as making it come true is the most dangerous enemy of human reason.

In real life the people who are most bigoted are the people who have no convictions at all.

Think of all those ages through which men have had the courage to die, and then remember that we have actually fallen to talking about having the courage to live.

It is customary to complain of the bustle and strenuousness of our epoch. But in truth the chief mark of our epoch is a profound laziness and fatigue; and the fact is that the real laziness is the cause of the apparent bustle.

The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land.