There are no new lies, no new heresies. Man is simply not that creative.

Men rush towards complexity, but they yearn towards simplicity. They try to be kings; but they dream of being shepherds.

Vigorous organisms talk not about their processes, but about their aims.

Bigotry may be roughly defined as the anger of men who have no opinions.

We cannot fling ourselves into the blank future; we can only call up images from the past. This being so, the important principle follows, that how many images we have largely depends on how much past we have.

Whether a man chooses to tell the truth in long sentences or short jokes is a problem analogous to whether he chooses to tell the truth in French or in German.

I entertain a private suspicion that physical sports were much more really effective and beneficent when they were not taken quite so seriously. One of the first essentials of sport being healthy is that it should be delightful; it is rapidly becoming a false religion with austerities and prostrations.