The only object of liberty is life.

What we suffer from today is humility in the wrong place...The old humility was a spur that prevented a man from stopping; not a nail in his boot that prevented him from going on. For the old humility made a man doubtful about his efforts, which made him work harder. But the new humility makes a man doubtful about his aims, which will make him stop working altogether.

Humour is meant, in a literal sense, to make game of man; that is, to dethrone him from his official dignity and hunt him like game.

Progress is a comparative of which we have not settled the superlative.

There is nothing harder to learn than painting and nothing which most people take less trouble about learning.

The power which makes a man able to entertain a good impulse is the same as that which enables him to make a good gun; it is imagination.

I should say that psycho-analysis was confession without absolution.