Where does a wise man kick a pebble? On the beach. Where does a wise man hide a leaf? In the forest.

If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.

The man who lives in a small community lives in a much larger world. He knows much more of the fierce variety and uncompromising divergences of men…In a large community, we can choose our companions. In a small community, our companions are chosen for us. Thus in all extensive and highly civilized society groups come into existence founded upon sympathy, and shut out the real world more sharply than the gates of a monastery. There is nothing really narrow about the clan; the thing which is really narrow is the clique.

In anything that does cover the whole of your life - in your philosophy and your religion - you must have mirth. If you do not have mirth you will certainly have madness.

Marxism: The theory that all the important things in history are rooted in an economic motive, that history is a science, a science of the search for food.

A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice.

Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles.