Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.

You may think a crime horrible because you could never commit it. I think it is horrible because I could commit it.

The poetry of art is in beholding the single tower; the poetry of nature in seeing the single tree; the poetry of love in following the single woman; the poetry of religion in worshipping the single star.

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

The things we see every day are the things we never see at all.

There is only one thing that stands in our midst, attenuated and threatened, but enthroned in some power like a ghost of the Middle Ages: the Trade Unions.

The most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless modern philosopher. Compared to him, burglars and bigamists are essentially moral men.