Our society is so abnormal that the normal man never dreams of having the normal occupation of looking after his own property. When he chooses a trade, he chooses one of the ten thousand trades that involve looking after other people's property.

The real pleasure-seeking is the combination of luxury and austerity in such a way that the luxury can really be felt.

For religion all men are equal, as all pennies are equal, because the only value of any of them is that they bear the image of the king.

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

Physical science is like simple addition: it is either infallible or it is false.

There are many books which we think we have read when we have not. There are, at least, many that we think we remember when we do not. An original picture was, perhaps, imprinted upon the brain, but it has changed with our own changing minds. We only remember our remembrance.

A great man is not a man so strong that he feels less than other men; he is a man so strong that he feels more.