No healthy civilization can ever be reared on a foundation of devitalized work.

The jealous man is so preoccupied with what he hasn't got that he fails to appreciate the value of what he has got. He loses the ability to feel glad because the sun is shining. He doesn't see the wonder and the newness of the beginning of spring.

Deliberate cruelty to our defenceless and beautiful little cousins is surely one of the meanest and most detestable vices of which a human being can be guilty.

The proper time to influence the character of a child is about a hundred years before he is born.

The statistics of suicide show that, for non-combatants at least, life is more interesting in war than in peace.

A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours.

Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful or to discover something that is true.