A really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.

if a man would make his world large, he must be always making himself small.

The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind.

CIVILISATION is not to be judged by the rapidity of communication, but by the value of what is communicated.

I believe your own accent is inimitable, though I shall practice it in my bath.

The point is not that this world is too sad to love or too glad not to love; the point is that when you do love a thing, its gladness is a reason for loving it, and its sadness a reason for loving it more.

To mix science up with philosophy is only to produce a philosophy that has lost all its ideal value and a science that has lost all its practical value. It is for my private physician to tell me whether this or that food will kill me. It is for my private philosopher to tell me whether I ought to be killed.