 Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel. |
| The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese. |
| There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person. |
| Nothing is poetical if plain daylight is not poetical; and no monster should amaze us if the normal man does not amaze. |
| When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs? Topics: Christmas |
| One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star. |
| Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another. |
| It is not funny that anything else should fall down; only that a man should fall down. Why do we laugh? Because it is a gravely religious matter: it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified. |
| There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds. |
| The present condition of fame is merely fashion. |
| The cosmos is about the smallest hole that a man can hide his head in. |
| No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete. |
| Half a truth is better than no politics. |
| White... is not a mere absence of colour; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black... God paints in many colours; but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white. |
| The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any of them. |
| Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere. |
| The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all. |
| The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself. Topics: Family |
| If I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon against pride. |
| A stiff apology is a second insult... The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt. |
