When the chord of monotony is stretched to its tightest, it breaks with the sound of a song.

Here ends another day, during which I have had eyes, ears, hands and the great world around me. Tomorrow begins another day. Why am I allowed two?

A good Moslem king was one who was strict in religion, valiant in battle, just in giving judgment among his people, but not one who had the slightest objection in international matters to removing his neighbour's landmark.

As regards moral courage, then, it is not so much that the public schools support it feebly, as that they suppress it firmly.

[Paradox is] truth standing on its head to gain attention.

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

It is cold anarchy to say that all men are to meddle in all men'smarriages. It is cold anarchy to say that any doctor may seize andsegregate anyone he likes. But it is not anarchy to say that a fewgreat hygienists might enclose or limit the life of all citizens,as nurses do with a family of children. It is not anarchy, it istyranny; but tyranny is a workable thing.