 Journalism largely consists of saying "Lord Jones is Dead" to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive. |
| If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly. |
| Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair. |
| Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper. |
| Large organization is loose organization. Nay, it would be almost as true to say that organization is always disorganization. |
| The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind. |
| Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all. |
| Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul but his life. |
| When we really worship anything, we love not only its clearness but its obscurity. We exult in its very invisibility. |
| 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. |
| A yawn is a silent shout. |
| All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry. |
| The only way of catching a train I have ever discovered is to miss the train before. |
| A room without books is like a body without a soul. |
| The whole order of things is as outrageous as any miracle which could presume to violate it. |
| Those thinkers who cannot believe in any gods often assert that the love of humanity would be in itself sufficient for them; and so, perhaps, it would, if they had it. |
| What affects men sharply about a foreign nation is not so much finding or not finding familiar things; it is rather not finding them in the familiar place. |
| People generally quarrel because they cannot argue. |
| A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching. |
| A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice. |
