There are no boring subjects, only disinterested minds.

There is nothing harder to learn than painting and nothing which most people take less trouble about learning.

The professional soldier gains more and more power as the general courage of a community declines.

A cosmic philosophy is not constructed to fit a man; a cosmic philosophy is constructed to fit a cosmos. A man can no more possess a private religion than he can possess a private sun and moon.

There is, therefore, about all complete conviction a kind of huge helplessness.

He walked by instinct along one white road, on which early birds hopped and sang, and found himself outside a fenced garden. There he saw the sister of Gregory, the girl with the gold-red hair, cutting lilac before breakfast, with the great unconscious gravity of a girl.

Dipsomaniac and the abstainer are not only both mistaken, but they both make the same mistake. They both regard wine as a drug and not as a drink.