“It is impossible without humility to enjoy anything - even pride.”

“Modesty has moved from the organ of ambition. Modesty has settled upon the organ of conviction where it was never meant to be. A man was meant to be doubtful about himself, but undoubting about the truth: this has been exactly reversed. Nowadays the part of a man that a man does assert is exactly the part he ought not to assert-himself. The part he doubts is exactly the part he ought not to doubt - the Divine Reason... The old humility was a spur that prevented a man from stopping: not a nail in his boot that prevented him from going on. For the old humility made a man doubtful about his efforts, which might make him work harder. But the new humility makes a man doubtful about his aims, which will make him stop working altogether.”

“Man must have just enough faith in himself to have adventures, and just enough doubt of himself to enjoy them.”

“Excuse me if I enjoy myself rather obviously! I don't often have the luck to have a dream like this. It is new to me for a nightmare to lead me to a lobster. It is commonly the other way.”

“No man should leave in the universe anything of which he is afraid.”

“Right is Right even if nobody does it. Wrong is wrong even if everybody is wrong about it.”

“And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than look down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.”