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Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.
The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.
The act of defending any of the cardinal virtues has today all the exhilaration of a vice.
The Church is a house with a hundred gates: and no two men enter at exactly the same angle
All real democracy is an attempt like that of a jolly hostess to bring the shy people out.
One can no more have a private religion than one can have a private sun or a private moon.
Any one of the strange laws we suffer is a compromise between a fad and a vested interest.
Boys like romantic tales; but babies like realistic tales-because they find them romantic.
Right is Right even if nobody does it. Wrong is wrong even if everybody is wrong about it.
I am not fighting a hopeless fight. People who have fought in real fights don't, as a rule.
The issue is now clear. It is between light and darkness and everyone must choose his side.
Is ditchwater dull? Naturalists with microscopes have told me that it teems with quiet fun.
I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.
One can hardly think too little of one's self. One can hardly think too much of one's soul.
Every man who will not have softening of the heart must at last have softening of the brain
In real life the people who are most bigoted are the people who have no convictions at all.
The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he that gets the most out of life.
Ivory may not be so white as snow, but the whole Arctic continent does not make ivory black.
When the chord of monotony is stretched to its tightest, it breaks with the sound of a song.
We are like the penny, because we have the image of the king stamped on us, the divine king.
God is like the sun; you cannot look at it, but without it you cannot look at anything else.
The whole order of things is as outrageous as any miracle which could presume to violate it.
It's not the world that's got so much worse but the news coverage that's got so much better.
I need not pause to explain that crime is not a disease. It is criminology that is a disease.
If I did not believe in God, I should still want my doctor, my lawyer and my banker to do so.
A small artist is content with art; a great artist is content with nothing except everything.
Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
The main point of Christianity was this: that Nature is not our mother: Nature is our sister.
The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world.
In a world where everything is ridiculous, nothing can be ridiculed. You cannot unmask a mask.
And it is always the humble man who talks too much; the proud man watches himself too closely.
The whole truth is generally the ally of virtue; a half-truth is always the ally of some vice.
Price is a crazy and incalculable thing, while Value is an intrinsic and indestructible thing.
All true friendliness begins with fire and food and drink and the recognition of rain or frost.
A third-class carriage is a community, while a first-class carriage is a place of wild hermits.
Forms of expression always appear turgid to those who do not share the emotions they represent.
If prosperity is regarded as the reward of virtue it will be regarded as the symptom of virtue.
Hell is God's great compliment to the reality of human freedom and the dignity of human choice.
The Reformer is always right about what's wrong. However, he's often wrong about what is right.
Nothing taken for granted; everything received with gratitude; everything passed on with grace.
When a man ceases to believe in god, he does not believe in nothing. He believes in everything.
The old religionist cried out for his god. The new religionist cries out for some god to be his.
The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.
The sort of man who admires Italian art while despising Italian religion is a tourist and a cad.
The poor complain that they are governed badly. The rich complain that they are governed at all.
There must be some good in the life of battle, for so many good men have enjoyed being soldiers.
When learned men begin to use their reason, then I generally discover that they haven't got any.
The prophet and the quack are alike admired for a generation, and admired for the wrong reasons.
She had never really listened to anyone in her life; which, some said, was why she had survived.