To brag little, to lose well, / To crow gently if in luck, / To pay up, to own up, / To shut up if beaten, / Are the virtues of a sportingman.

The difference between gossip and philosophy lies only in one's way of taking a fact.

There are many things which we can afford to forget which it is yet well to learn.

In order to know whether a human being is young or old, offer it food of different kinds at short intervals. If young, it will eat anything at any hour of the day or night.

History has to be rewritten because history is the selection of those threads of causes or antecedents that we are interested in.

Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.

We must think things not words, or at least we must constantly translate our words into the facts for which they stand, if we are to keep to the real and the true.