Good taste, the last and vilest of human superstitions, has succeeded in silencing us where all the rest has failed.

Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable.

In the glad old days, before the rise of modern morbidities...it used to be thought a disadvantage to be misunderstood.

What is the good of telling a community that it has every liberty except the liberty to make laws? The liberty to make laws is what constitutes a free people.

We may fight for the cause of international peace because we are very fond of fighting.

When Nietszche says, "A new commandment I give to you, be hard" he is really saying, "A new commandment I give to you, be dead." Sensibility is the definition oflife.

I do not know by what extraordinary mental accident modern writers so constantly connect the idea of progress with the idea of independent thinking.

Until we realize that things might not be we cannot realize that things are.

There is nothing which is so weak for working purposes as the enormous importance attached to immediate victory.

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

What is fame? a fancied life in others' breath.

We are the only animals that let our kids come back home.

As long as your body is healthy and under control and death is distant, try to save your soul; when death is immanent what can you do?

Had we kept the oil, you wouldn't have ISIS, because they fuel their growth with the oil.

If we are strong, our strength will speak for itself. If we are weak, words will be of no help.

As a civilian during the Second War, I was exposed to danger in circumstances which removed any distinction between the man in and the man out of uniform.

There are two kinds of fidelity, that of dogs and that of cats; you, gentleman, have the fidelity of cats who never leave the house.

The best thing a writer can do is walk. Walking gives you ideas.

My wish is to construct a system of sociology on the model of celestial mechanics, physics, and chemistry.