The most important fact about the subject of education is that there is no such thing. Education is not a subject and it does not deal in subjects. It is instead the transfer of a way of life.

Imagination does not breed insanity. Exactly what does breed insanity is reason. Poets do not go mad, but chess players do.

Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable. Never drink when you are wretched without it, or you will be like the grey-faced gin-drinker in the slum; but drink when you would be happy without it, and you will be like the laughing peasant of Italy. Never drink because you need it, for this is rational drinking, and the way to death and hell. But drink because you do not need it, for this is irrational drinking, and the ancient health of the world.

The repetition in Nature may not be a mere recurrence; it may be a theatrical encore.

Realism is simply Romanticism that has lost its reason...that is its reason for existing.

I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.

We are all in the same boat, in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty.