My brain and this world don't fit each other; and there's an end of it.

Business, especially big business, is now organized like an army. It is, as some would say, a sort of mild militarism without bloodshed; as I say, a militarism without the military virtues.

You never know the best about men until you know the worst about them.

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

Fairy tales are more than true.

Christianity got over the difficulty of combining furious opposites, by keeping them both, and keeping them both furious.

The best way that a man could test his readiness to encounter the common variety of mankind would be to climb down a chimney into any house at random, and get on as well as possible with the people inside. And that is essentially what each one of us did on the day that he was born.