I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act, but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.

Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.

A man can never quite understand a boy, even when he has been a boy.

O God of earth and altar, Bow down and hear our cry; Our earthly rulers falter, Our people drift and die; The walls of gold entomb us, The swords of scorn divide; Take not Thy thunder from us, But take away our pride. From all that terror teaches, From lies of tongue and pen; From all the easy speeches That comfort cruel men; From sale and profanation Of honor and the sword; From sleep and from damnation, Deliver us, good Lord! Tie in a living tether The prince and priest and thrall; Bind all our lives together, Smite us and save us all; In ire and exultation Aflame with faith, and free, Lift up a living nation, A single sword to Thee.

The doctrine of human equality reposes on this: that there is no man really clever who has not found that he is stupid.

Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf is better than a whole loaf.

"My country, right or wrong," is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except a desperate case. It is like saying, "My mother, drunk or sober.".

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms: it means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms: it means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.

You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution.

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.

Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.

The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.

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.

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.

People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.

You could compile the worst book in the world entirely out of selected passages from the best writers in the world.

It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.