Why should you row a boat race? Why endure the long months of pain in preparation for a fierce half hour that will leave you all but dead? Does anyon….

Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else..

Nothing is so commonplace has the wish to be remarkable..

Old age is like an opium dream. Nothing seems real except the unreal..

Knowledge-it excites prejudices to call it science-is advancing as irresistibly, as majestically, as remorselessly as the ocean moves in upon the sho….

A man's opinions are generally of much more value than his arguments..

There was never an idea started that woke up men out of their stupid indifference but its originator was spoken of as a crank..

To brag little, to lose well, / To crow gently if in luck, / To pay up, to own up, / To shut up if beaten, / Are the virtues of a sportingman..

A river is more than an amenity, it is a treasure..

To know is not less than to feel..

You hear that boy laughing?you think he's all fun; But the angels laugh, too, at the good he has done; The children laugh loud as they troop to his c….

You make me chuckle when you say that you are no longer young, that you have turned twenty-four. A man is or may be young to after sixty, and not old….

Anytime you see a Hungarian, kick him. He'll know why. Any two philosophers can tell each other all they know in two hours..

There is in all men a demand for the superlative, so much so that the poor devil that has no other way of reaching it attains it by getting drunk..

The only condition of peace in this world is to have no ideas, or, at least not to express them..

Life, not the parson, teaches conduct..

Our morality seems to be only a check on the ultimate domination of force, just as our politeness is a check on the impulse of every pig to put his f….

Men are idolaters, and want something to look at and kiss and hug, or throw themselves down before; they always did, they always will; and if you don….

Men are tattooed with their special beliefs like so many South Sea Islanders; but a real human heart with divine love in it beats with the same glow ….

Science ... in other words, knowledge-is not the enemy of religion; for, if so, then religion would mean ignorance. But it is often the antagonist of….

Reason means truth and those who are not governed by it take the chance that someday the sunken fact will rip the bottom out of their boat..