I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

The most poetical thing in the world is not being sick.

The cross cannot be defeated for it is defeat.

The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.

People have fallen into a foolish habit of speaking of orthodoxy as something heavy, humdrum, and safe. There never was anything so perilous or so exciting as orthodoxy. It was sanity: and to be sane is more dramatic than to be mad.

Stated baldly, charity certainly means one of two things–pardoning unpardonable acts, or loving unlovable people.

My attitude toward progress has passed from antagonism to boredom. I have long ceased to argue with people who prefer Thursday to Wednesday because it is Thursday.