Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.
The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.
The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.
The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.
Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.
One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.
Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
I've searched all the parks in all the cities and found no statues of committees.
Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.
The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.
The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.
No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.
The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
