Make your choice, adventurous Stranger; Strike the bell and bide the danger, Or wonder, till it drives you mad, What would have followed if you had.
Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.
We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased.
Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say ‘infinitely' when you mean ‘very'; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.
We have trained them [men] to think of the Future as a promised land which favoured heroes attain—not as something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
Only the skilled can judge the skilfulness, but that is not the same as judging the value of the result.
You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.