Cut quarrels out of literature, and you will have very little history or drama or fiction or epic poetry left.

Knowledge is power only if man knows what facts not to bother with.

I sometimes suspect that half our difficulties are imaginary and that if we kept quiet about them they would disappear.

Most of us can remember a time when a birthday - especially if it was one's own - brightened the world as if a second sun has risen.

[History is] the story of the magnificent rear-guard action fought during several thousand years by dogma against curiosity.

Most of us believe in trying to make other people happy only if they can be happy in ways which we approve.

Any of us can achieve virtue, if by virtue we merely mean the avoidance of the vices that do not attract us.

There are some people who want to throw their arms round you simply because it is Christmas; there are other people who want to strangle you simply because it is Christmas.

The telephone is the greatest nuisance among conveniences, the greatest convenience among nuisances.

When the last Puritan has disappeared from the earth, the man of science will take his place as a killjoy, and we shall be given the same old advice but for different reasons.

Most remarks that are worth making are commonplace remarks. The things that makes them worth saying is that we really mean them.

May your dreams be larger than mountains and may you have the courage to scale their summits.

Even the enemy needs permission from God to do what he wants with you.

Life wore a man out, wore a man thin.Tomorrow would be a better day.

I like it that order exists somewhere even if it shatters near me.

The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.

Gold will never free your father, the price, my dear, is you instead.

Emotional self-awareness is the building block of the next fundamental emotional intelligence: being able to shake off a bad mood.

Discipline, Norah. If you're going to taunt them, remember to stick out your tongue.

The seeds of the past bear fruit in the present.

Through our entire history we have become accustomed to pushing [animals] around in ways dictated by our own wants and needs without much regard for theirs.