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A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.
No man knows he is young while he is young.
There nearly always is a method in madness.
To downgrade the human mind is bad theology.
To be simple is the best thing in the world.
London is a riddle. Paris is an explanation.
The only defensible war is a war of defense.
Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
Theology is only thought applied to religion.
The comedy of man survives the tragedy of man.
Aristocracy: government by the badly educated.
There are no new ideas about female education.
The cross cannot be defeated for it is defeat.
Somehow one can never manage to be an atheist.
There are some desires that are not desirable.
Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
The center of every man's existence is a dream.
You cannot grow a beard in a moment of passion.
Acceptance is the truest kinship with humanity.
The present condition of fame is merely fashion.
A faith is that which is able to survive a mood.
Spring never is spring unless it comes too soon.
The eagle has no liberty; he only has loneliness.
We actually love ourselves more than we love joy.
If there were no God, there would be no atheists.
Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.
We're all in the same boat, and we're all seasick.
You can't have the family farm without the family.
People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal.
Aesthetes never do anything but what they are told.
The noble temptation to see too much in everything.
America has a genius for the encouragement of fame.
Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.
All architecture is great architecture after sunset.
An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.
Even a bad shot is dignified when he accepts a duel.
Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly.
Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.
America is the only country ever founded on a creed.
It is as healthy to enjoy sentiment as to enjoy jam.
The rich are the scum of the earth in every country.
Every heresy has been an effort to narrow the Church.
Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.
I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.
The simplification of anything is always sensational.
I still think sincere pessimism the unpardonable sin.
Men rush toward complexity; but yearn for simplicity.