Imagination does not breed insanity. Exactly what does breed insanity is reason. Poets do not go mad, but chess players do.

People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.

No man knows he is young while he is young.

The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.

I would look at the first chapter of any new novel as a final test of its merits. If there was a murdered man under the sofa in the first chapter, I read the story. If there was no murdered man under the sofa in the first chapter, I dismissed the story as tea-table twaddle, which it often really was.

The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them.

Every one on this earth should believe, amid whatever madness or moral failure, that his life and temperament have some object on the earth. Every one on the earth should believe that he has something to give to the world which cannot otherwise be given.