Let every dawn of morning be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close: — then let every one of these short lives leave its sure record of some kindly thing done for others — some goodly strength or knowledge gained for yourselves.

Production does not consist in things laboriously made, but in things serviceably consumable; and the question for the nation is not how much labour it employs, but how much life it produces.

Man's only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him.

Beethoven always sounds to me like the upsetting of a bag of nails, with here and there an also dropped hammer.

I believe the first test of a truly great man is in his humility.

When the whole world turns clown, and paints itself red with its own hearts blood instead of vermilion, it is something else than comic.

Obey something, and you will have a chance to learn what is best to obey. But if you begin by obeying nothing, you will end by obeying the devil and all his invited friends.