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

Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.

You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.

The humorous look of children is perhaps the most endearing of all the bonds that hold the Cosmos together. Their top-heavy dignity is more touching than any humility; their solemnity gives us more hope for all things than a thousand carnivals of optimism; their large and lustrous eyes seem to hold all the stars in their astonishment; their fascinating absence of nose seems to give to us the most perfect hint of the humour that awaits us in the kingdom of heaven.

A great man is not a man so strong that he feels less than other men; he is a man so strong that he feels more.

There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.

The average businessman began to be agnostic, not so much because he did not know where he was, as because he wanted to forget. Many of the rich took to scepticism exactly as the poor took to drink; because it was a way out.