Cultivate a military type of mind, or else be an unmilitary community and a defenseless one.

If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear.

Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.

Love is a simple thing and a deep thing: it is an act of life and not an illusion.

It is not money but the mind that makes men rich.

A man of great common sense and good taste – meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.

No man should ever work. Work is the source of all misery in the world. Almost all the evil you'd care to name comes from working or from living in a world designed for work.

The man who listens to Reason is lost: Reason enslaves all whose minds are not strong enough to master her.

The world is made by the people who are its motive power, and they are very few.

When a man is in love with one woman in a family, it often means that he has been struck by the whole family.

Heartbreak House