People that insist upon drinking and driving, are putting the quart before the hearse.

"The Universe repeats itself, with the possible exception of history." Of all earthly studies history is the only one that does not repeat itself. ... Astronomy repeats itself; botany repeats itself; trigonometry repeats itself; mechanics repeats itself; compound long division repeats itself. Every sum if worked out in the same way at any time will bring out the same answer. ... A great many moderns say that history is a science; if so it occupies a solitary and splendid elevation among the sciences; it is the only science the conclusions of which are always wrong.

The modern world... has no notion except that of simplifying something by destroying nearly everything.

The true object of human life is play.

Romance is the combination of something that is strange with something that is secure.

Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.

Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper.