Occupation: Author Birth: May 29, 1906 Death: January 17, 1964
The Destiny of Man is to unite, not to divide. If you keep on dividing you end up as a collection of monkeys throwing nuts at each other out of separ….
Wrongs have to be redressed by reason, not by force..
Life is such unutterable hell, solely because it is sometimes beautiful. If we could only be miserable all the time, if there could be no such things….
It is good to put your life in other people's hands..
The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and to watch someone else do it wrong without comment..
Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear ….
Perhaps we all give the best of our hearts uncritically--to those who hardly think about us in return..
You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, yo….
In war, our elders may give the orders...but it is the young who have to fight..
Education is experience, and the essence of experience is self-reliance..
If people reach perfection they vanish, you know..
The best thing for being sad, is to learn something. That's the only thing that never fails ... Learning is the only thing for you. Look what a lot o….
They made me see that the world was beautiful if you were beautiful, and that you couldn't get unless you gave. And you had to give without wanting t….
There is one fairly good reason for fighting - and that is, if the other man starts it. You see, wars are a great wickedness, perhaps the greatest wi….
Might does not make right! Right makes right!.
Only fools want to be great..
Believe me, the so-called primitive races who worshipped animals as gods were not so daft as people choose to pretend. At least they were humble. Why….
Those who lived by the sword were forced to die by it..
The destiny of man is an individualistic destiny..
The best thing for being sad ... is to learn something..
"The best thing for being sad," replied Merlin, beginning to puff and blow, "is to learn something. That's the only thing that never fails..