A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice.

Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.

There must be some good in the life of battle, for so many good men have enjoyed being soldiers.

All science, even the divine science, is a sublime detective story. Only it is not set to detect why a man is dead; but the darker secret of why he is alive.

He may be mad, but there's method in his madness. There nearly always is method in madness. It's what drives men mad, being methodical.

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.

Aristocracy: government by the badly educated.