I would not say that old men grow wise, for men never grow wise; and many old men retain a very attractive childishness and cheerful innocence. Elderly people are often much more romantic than younger people, and sometimes even more adventurous, having begun to realize how many things they do not know.

The materialist is sure that history has been simply and solely a chain of causation, just as the [lunatic] is quite sure that he is simply and solely a chicken. Materialists and madmen never have doubts.

Price is a crazy and incalculable thing, while Value is an intrinsic and indestructible thing.

Is ditchwater dull? Naturalists with microscopes have told me that it teems with quiet fun.

Progress should mean that we are always changing the world to fit the vision, instead we are always changing the vision.

The humorous look of children is perhaps the most endearing of all the bonds that hold the Cosmos together.

Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf; is better than a whole loaf.