There are one-story intellects, two-story intellects, and three-story intellects with skylights. All fact collectors with no aim beyond their facts are one-story men. Two-story men compare reason and generalize, using labors of the fact collectors |
There is no such thing as a female punster |
Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It was given to us to learn at the outset that life is a profound and passionate thing. |
To be civilized is to be potentially master of all possible ideas, and that means that one has got beyond being shocked, although one preserves one's own moral aesthetic preferences |
To be seventy years young is sometimes for more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old. |
To brag little - to show well - to crow gently, if in luck - to pay up, to own up, and to shut up, if beaten, are the virtues of a sporting man |
To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man. |
To live is to function. That is all there is in living. |
To obtain a man's opinion of you, make him mad. |
To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor. |
To think great thoughts, you must be heroes as well as idealists |
Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at the touch, nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening. |
Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light |
We can forgive a man the defects of his qualities, if only he has the qualities of his defects |
We do not quit playing because we grow old, we grow old because we quit playing. |