Men rush towards complexity, but they yearn towards simplicity. They try to be kings; but they dream of being shepherds.

ONCE remove the old arena of theological quarrels, and you will throw open the whole world to the most horrible, the most hopeless, the most endless, the most truly interminable quarrels; the untheological quarrels.

The human race is always trying this dodge of making everything entirely easy; but the difficulty which it shifts off one thing it shifts to another.

If it's worth doing, it's worth doing badly. (on not perfectionism to put things off) .

The voice of the special rebels and prophets, recommending discontent, should, as I have said, sound now and then suddenly, like a trumpet. But the voices of the saints and sages, recommending contentment, should sound unceasingly, like the sea.

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

The average woman is at the head of something with which she can do as she likes; the average man has to obey orders and do nothing else.