There is only one kind of wisdom that has any social value, and that is the knowledge of one's own limitations.

the autobiography is at one and the same time a single element in the series of the writer's created works and an interpretation of the whole series.

If we did not know all His retorts by heart, if we had not taken the sting out of them by incessant repetition in the accents of the pulpit, and if we had not somehow got it into our heads that brains were rather reprehnsible, we should reckon Him among the greatest wits of all time. Nobody else, in three brief years, has achieved such an output of epigram.

But you see, I can believe a thing without understanding it. It's all a matter of training.

Nothing is more vulgar than a careful avoidance of beginning a letter with the first person singular.

the heaviest restriction upon the freedom of public opinion is not the official censorship of the Press, but the unofficial censorship by a Press which exists not so much to express opinion as to manufacture it.

The great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it.