 Man is an exception, whatever else he is. If he is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust. If it is not true that a divine being fell, then we can only say that one of the animals went entirely off its head. |
| Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men. |
| The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see. |
| We are justified in enforcing good morals, for they belong to all mankind; but we are not justified in enforcing good manners, for good manners always mean our own manners. |
| The ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense, that he is soaked and swept away by mere associations. |
| It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem. |
| Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it. |
| A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition. |
| All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks. |
| An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered. |
| I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles. |
| With any recovery from morbidity there must go a certain healthy humiliation. |
| The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it. |
| A businessman is the only man who is forever apologizing for his occupation. |
| 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. |
| Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried. Topics: Christianity |
| The simplification of anything is always sensational. |
| The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and left untried. |
| There is but an inch of difference between a cushioned chamber and a padded cell. |
| There is nothing the matter with Americans except their ideals. The real American is all right; it is the ideal American who is all wrong. |
