We must think things not words, or at least we must constantly translate our words into the facts for which they stand, if we are to keep to the real and the true.
A child’s education should begin at least 100 years before he was born.
The great thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are going.
We have shared the incommunicable experience of war, we have felt, we still feel, the passion of life to its top. In our youth our hearts were touched with fire.
Academic life is but half life it is a withdrawal from the fight to utter smart things that cost you nothing except the thinking them from a cloister.
A man who called everyone a damn fool is like a man who damns the weather. He only shows that he is not adapted to his environment, not that the environment is wrong.
The man of action has the present, but the thinker controls the future.
I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy.
A goose flies by a chart the Royal Geographic Society could not improve.
if one of two or more joint wrongdoers has to pay all the damages, he cannot recover contribution from his fellows.
The first requirement of a sound body of law is, that it should correspond with the actual feelings and demands of the community, whether right or wrong.
We are very quiet there, but it is the quiet of a storm centre. .
I like to pay taxes. With them, I buy civilization.
Share the passion and action of your time at peril of being judged not to have lived.