A firm faith in the universal providence of God is the solution of all earthly troubles.
I used to think the only use for sport was to give small boys something else to kick besides me.
Filing is concerned with the past; anything you actually need to see again has to do with the future.
The case against censoring anything is absolute:. . . nothing that could be censored can be so bad in its effects, in the long run, as censorship itself.
[On the English climate:] People get a bad impression of it by continually trying to treat it as if it was a bank clerk, who ought to be on time on Tuesday next, instead of philosophically seeing it as a painter, who may do anything so long as you don't try to predict what.
From a commercial point of view, if Christmas did not exist it would be necessary to invent it.
It beats me how Freud could say "What do women want?" as if we all must want the same thing.
Or that I couldn't stand to watch anything bad happen to you, because it was like it was happening to me too. Is that love?
It's right to trust in God; but, if you don't stand to your halliards your craft'll miss stays, and your faith'll be blown out of the bolt-ropes in the turn of a marlinspike.
No revolution without sexual revolution. No sexual revolution without homosexual revolution.
I have no notions of a perfect society, I don’t know what that means. I know we can do much better than what we’ve got, I’m no utopian, I’m not a humanist that would like to see everybody living in warmth and harmony: I know that if we don’t live that way, we’ll kill each other and destroy the Earth.