My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its office-holders.

The happy phrasing of a compliment is one of the rarest of human gifts, and the happy delivery of it another.

The law of work does seem utterly unfair-but there it is, and nothing can change it: the higher the pay in enjoyment the worker gets out of it, the higher shall be his pay in cash, too.

Prediction is difficult- particularly when it involves the future.

A marriage...makes of two fractional lives a whole; it gives to two purposeless lives a work, and doubles the strength of each to perform it; it gives to two questioning natures a reason for living, and something to live for; it will give a new gladness to the sunshine, a new fragrance to the flowers, a new beauty to the earth, and a new mystery to life.

Really, what we want now, is not laws against crime, but a law against insanity. That is where the true evil lies.

We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it - and stop there.