I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder. Read Summary
One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak. Read Summary
The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried. Read Summary
The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it. Read Summary
Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame. Read Summary
There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds. Read Summary
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered. Read Summary
The only way of catching a train I have ever discovered is to miss the train before. Read Summary
The word 'good' has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man. Read Summary
The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. Unless a particular man made New Year resolutions, he would make no resolutions. Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective. Read Summary
Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously. Read Summary
To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it. Read Summary
There is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect. Read Summary
If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly. Read Summary
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. Read Summary
The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense. Read Summary
The simplification of anything is always sensational. Read Summary
Journalism largely consists of saying 'Lord Jones is Dead' to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive. Read Summary
The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us. Read Summary
Man does not live by soap alone; and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it. Read Summary