It is impossible without humility to enjoy anything - even pride.

To say that a man is an idealist is merely to say that he is a man.

There are two kinds of rebellion. The first is one in which the slave demands something that the tyrant has got. The second is one in which he demands something that the tyrant has not got.

The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.

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.

Morality did not begin by one man saying to another, "I will not hit you if you do not hit me"; there is no trace of such a transaction. There IS a trace of both men having said, "We must not hit each other in the holy place.

All science, even the divine science, is a sublime detective story. Only it is not set to detect why a man is dead; but the darker secret of why he is alive.