19 Quotes by Robert Staughton Lynd

Most remarks that are worth making are commonplace remarks. The things that makes them worth saying is that we really mean them.

It is a glorious thing to be indifferent to suffering, but only to one's own suffering.

Every man of genius is considerably helped by being dead.

Almost any game with any ball is a good game.

Most of us can remember a time when a birthday - especially if it was one's own - brightened the world as if a second sun has risen.

Friendship is not going to stand the pressure of greatly great guidance for quite extensive.

Any of us can achieve virtue, if by virtue we merely mean the avoidance of the vices that do not attract us.

[History is] the story of the magnificent rear-guard action fought during several thousand years by dogma against curiosity.

When the last Puritan has disappeared from the earth, the man of science will take his place as a killjoy, and we shall be given the same old advice but for different reasons.