Among the very rich you will never find a really generous man, even by accident. They may give their money away, but they will never give themselves away; they are egoistic, secretive, dry as old bones. To be smart enough to get all that money you must be dull enough to want it.

A good novel tells us the truth about it's hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.

The madman is not the man who has lost his reason. He is the man who has lost everything except his reason.

Their is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.

Do not free the camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.

They have given us into the hand of new unhappy lords. Lords without anger and honor, who dare not carry their swords. They fight by shuffling papers; they have bright dead alien eyes; They look at our labor and laughter as a tired man looks at flies.

No man who worships education has got the best out of education.... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.

The world will never starve for want of wonders, but for want of wonder.

The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist see what he has come to see.

A stiff apology is a second insult. The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt.