The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind.

I do not believe that any human being is fundamentally happier for being finally lost in a crowd, even if it is called a crowd of comrades.

A good man's work is effected by doing what he does, a woman's by being what she is.

In matters of truth the fact that you don't want to publish something is, nine times out of ten, a proof that you ought to publish it.

We are learning to do a great many clever things. The next great task will be to learn not to do them.

The reason that angels fly is that they take themselves so lightly.

Let a man walk ten miles steadily on a hot summer's day along a dusty English road, and he will soon discover why beer was invented.