No man can be merry unless he is serious.

Every one on this earth should believe, amid whatever madness or moral failure, that his life and temperament have some object on the earth. Every one on the earth should believe that he has something to give to the world which cannot otherwise be given.

Large organization is loose organization. Nay, it would be almost as true to say that organization is always disorganization.

Every sane man recognises that unlimited liberty is anarchy, or rather is nonentity. The civic idea of liberty is to give the citizen a province of liberty; a limitation within which a citizen is a king.

I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.

Teach to the young, men's enduring truths, and let the learned amuse themselves with their passing errors.

...a figure of speech can often get into a crack too small for a definition.