if a man would make his world large, he must be always making himself small.

Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.

I've been to every park in every city and not seen a statue to a committee.

You cannot grow a beard in a moment of passion.

When a man ceases to believe in god, he does not believe in nothing. He believes in everything.

It is ludicrous to suppose that the more sceptical we are the more we see good in everything. It is clear that the more we are certain what good is, the more we shall see good in everything.

A man will not roll in the snow for a stream of tendency by which all things fulfill the law of their being. He will not go without food in the name of something, not ourselves, that makes for righteousness. He will do things like this, or pretty nearly like this, under quite a different impulse. He will do these things when he is in love.