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What we call morals is simply blind obedience to words of command.
Ful wys is he that can himselven knowe! (Very wise is he that can know himself.).
I'm proud of paying taxes. The only thing is--I could be just as proud for half the money.
Journalism consists largely in saying Lord Jones died to people who never knew Lord Jones was alive.
The great thought, the great concern, the great anxiety of men is to restrict, as much as possible, the limits of their own responsibility.
- Borsi, A Soldier's Confidences with God.
He is richest who is content with the least.
As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow.
- From a College Window.
Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him.
- The Wisdom of the Heart.
Every man ought to be inquisitive through every hour of his great adventure down to the day when he shall no longer cast a shadow in the sun. For if he dies without a question in his heart, what excuse is there for his continuance?
- The Colby Essays.
Surely the glory of journalism is its transience.
- The Most of Malcolm Muggeridge, 1966.
Public and private food in America has become eatable, here and there extremely good. Only the fried potatoes go unchanged, as deadly as before.
- O America, 1977.