The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. Unless a particular man made New Year resolutions, he would make no resolutions. Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective.

We talk of wild animals, but the wildest animal is man.

If the common man in the past had a grave respect for property, it may conceivably have been because he sometimes had some of his own.

I should say that psycho-analysis was confession without absolution.

It has always been one of my unclerical sermons to myself, that that remark which Peter made on seeing the vision of a single hour, ought to be made by us all, in contemplating every panoramic change in the long Vision we call life... "It is good for us to be here - it is good for us to be here", repeating itself eternally.

Men reform a thing by removing the reality from it, and then do not know what to do with the unreality that is left.

Silence is the unbearable repartee.