While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that a reasonable man has to behave as though he were sure of it. If at the end your cheerfulness in not justified, at any rate…

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I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.

I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.

In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or...

In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or...

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.

Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the...

Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the...

Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it...

Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it...

There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges...

There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges...

Heresies are experiments in man's unsatisfied search for truth.

Heresies are experiments in man's unsatisfied search for truth.

If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.

If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.

Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.

Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.

The doctrine of the Kingdom of Heaven, which was the main teaching of Jesus, is...

The doctrine of the Kingdom of Heaven, which was the main teaching of Jesus, is...

The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done...

The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done...

I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything...

I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything...

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

The uglier a man's legs are, the better he plays golf-it's almost a law.

The uglier a man's legs are, the better he plays golf-it's almost a law.

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of...

We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of...

She writes like a loom, producing her broad rich fabric with hardly a thought of...

She writes like a loom, producing her broad rich fabric with hardly a thought of...

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.

Jealousy would be far less torturous if we understood that love is a passion entirely...

Jealousy would be far less torturous if we understood that love is a passion entirely...

It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy to deprive a man of his...

It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy to deprive a man of his...