A man running after a hat is not half so ridiculous as a man running after a wife.

I do not believe that any human being is fundamentally happier for being finally lost in a crowd, even if it is called a crowd of comrades.

Cruelty is, perhaps, the worst kind of sin. Intellectual cruelty is certainly the worst kind of cruelty.

There are two kinds of people in the world: the conscious dogmatists and the unconscious dogmatists. I have always found myself that the unconscious dogmatists were by far the most dogmatic.

We call a man a bigot or a slave of dogma because he is a thinker who has thought thoroughly and to a definite end.

It is as healthy to enjoy sentiment as to enjoy jam.

When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it.

People seem to fight about things very unsuitable for fighting. They make a frightful noise in support of very quiet things. They knock each other about in the name of very fragile things.

It is not greedy to enjoy a good dinner, any more than it is greedy to enjoy a good concert. But I do think there is something greedy about trying to enjoy the dinner and the concert at the same time.

One of the great disadvantages of hurry is that it takes such a long time.