Illusions are like umbrellas you no sooner get them than you lose them, and the loss always leaves a little painful wound.

One of the most horrible features of war is that all the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting. read more

• Thought Most Horrible Features War Propaganda Screaming Lies Hatred Comes Invariably from People Fighting

Always laugh when you can...it is a cheap medicine. read more

• Thought Laugh Cheap Medicine

There shall be wings! If the accomplishment be not for me, it's for some other. read more

• Thought Wings Accomplishment for Some

All of us love companionship and sympathy; some of us may love them too much. All of us are more or less imaginative in our theology. read more

• Thought Us Love Companionship Sympathy Some Them Too Much More Imaginative Our Theology

Even stopped clocks are right twice a day. read more

• Thought Even Stopped Clocks Right Twice Day

No egoism is so insufferable as the Christian with regard to his soul. read more

• Thought Egoism Insufferable Christian Regard Soul

Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young. read more

• Thought Imagination Grows by Exercise Contrary Common Belief More Powerful Mature Young

It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it. read more

• Thought Illusion Youth Happy Those Lost

When we come to judge others it is not by ourselves as we really are that we judge them, but by an image that we have formed of ourselves from which we have left out everything that offends our vanity or would discredit us in the eyes of the world. read more

• Thought Come Judge Others by Ourselves Really Them Image Formed from Which Left Everything Offends Our Vanity Discredit Us Eyes World

Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth. read more

• Thought Old Age Its Pleasures Which Though Different Youth