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.

• Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.
• We make our friends we make our enemies but God makes our next door neighbour.
• Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.
• Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.
• People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make.
• Dogmatism does not mean the absence of thought, but the end of thought.
• Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.
• There is something to be said for every error but, whatever may be said for it, the most important thing to be said about it is that it is erroneous.
• The only words that ever satisfied me as describing Nature are the terms used in fairy books, charm, spell, enchantment. They express the arbitrariness of the fact and its mystery.
• Coincidences are spiritual puns.