Do not free the camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.

One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.

Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.

The cosmos is about the smallest hole that a man can hide his head in.

Angels fly because they take themselves lightly.

The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any of them.

Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.

Courage is getting away from death by continually coming within an inch of it.

The old idea that the joke was not good enough for the company has been superseded by the new aristocratic idea that the company was not worthy of the joke. They have introduced an almost insane individualism into that one form of intercourse which is specially and uproariously communal. They have made even levities into secrets. They have made laughter lonelier than tears.