A vegetarian is not a person who lives on vegetables, any more than a Catholic is a person who lives on cats.

He knows nothing and thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.

A great social reformer.

It is clear that a novel cannot be too bad to be worth publishing. . . . It certainly is possible for a novel to be too good to be worth publishing.

Jesus remains unshaken as the practical man; and we stand exposed as the fools, the blunderers, the unpractical visionaries.

He who has nothing to assert has no style and can have none: he who has something to assert will go as far in power of style as its momentousness and his conviction will carry him

It is well to be off with the old woman before you're on with the new.