The man who sees two or three generations is like one who sits in the conjuror's booth at a fair, and sees the same tricks two or three times. They are meant to be seen only once.

Exaggeration of every kind is as essential to journalism as it is to dramatic art, for the object of journalism is to make events go as far as possible.

Solitude will be welcomed or endured or avoided, according as a man's personal value is large or small.

Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.

Consciousness is the mere surface of our minds, of which, as of the earth, we do not know the inside, but only the crust.

The law of simplicity and naïveté applies to all fine art, for it is compatible with what is most sublime.

In truth the most striking figure for the relation of the two is that of the strong blind man carrying the sighted lame man on his shoulders.