I entertain a private suspicion that physical sports were much more really effective and beneficent when they were not taken quite so seriously. One of the first essentials of sport being healthy is that it should be delightful; it is rapidly becoming a false religion with austerities and prostrations.

Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised.

It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.

Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.

Man is not merely an evolution but rather a revolution.

Truth is sacred; and if you tell the truth too often nobody will believe it.

The man who lives in a small community lives in a much larger world. He knows much more of the fierce variety and uncompromising divergences of men…In a large community, we can choose our companions. In a small community, our companions are chosen for us. Thus in all extensive and highly civilized society groups come into existence founded upon sympathy, and shut out the real world more sharply than the gates of a monastery. There is nothing really narrow about the clan; the thing which is really narrow is the clique.