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Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
If a rhinoceros were to enter this restaurant now, there is no denying he would have great power here. But I should be the first to rise and assure him that he had no authority whatever.
True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare.
The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.
The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.
To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.
New roads; new ruts.
Only poor men get hanged.
A yawn is a silent shout.
Atheism is too theological.
Art is the signature of man.
I am at one with my duality.
The past is not what it was.
Surprise is the secret of joy.
Fairy tales are more than true.
Coincidence is a spiritual pun.
Coincidences are spiritual puns.
The word good has many meanings.
Humility is the mother of giants.
A naked moon stood in a naked sky.
Nothing is certain by uncertainty.
Progress is the mother of problems.
Adventure is the champagne of life.
The supreme adventure is being BORN
The test of happiness is gratitude.
There is no bigot like the atheist.
The only object of liberty is life.
Silence is the unbearable repartee.
Man is at his tallest when he bows.
All government is an ugly necessity.
Plato was right, but not quite right.
The moderns do not realize modernity.
Passion makes every detail important.
The true object of human life is play.
Thanks are the highest form of thought.
Faith means believing the unbelievable.
Buddhism is not a creed, it is a doubt.
Progress is the mother of all problems.
Marriage is a sort of poetical see-saw.
Leisure is being allowed to do nothing.
It is always the secure who are humble.
The best kind of giving is thanksgiving.
Half a truth is better than no politics.
Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
No man can be merry unless he is serious.
(Tradition) is the democracy of the dead.
It is easy to be heavy: hard to be light.
Materialists and madmen never have doubts.
Poets do not go mad, but chess players do.
