And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.

Be careful how you suggest things to me. For there is in me a madness which goes beyond martyrdom, the madness of an utterly idle man.

Freethinkers are occasionally thoughtful, though never free.

Man does not live by soap alone; and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it.

Only men to whom the family is sacred will ever have a standard or a status by which to criticize the State. They alone can appeal to something more holy than the gods of the city.

It is often a mistake to combine two pleasures, because pleasures, like pains, can act as counter-irri-tants to each other.

We are all ordinary people. And it's the extraordinary people Who know it.