Patriotism is a word which always commemorates a robbery.

No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense an idiot.

New opinions often appear first as jokes and fancies, then as blasphemies and treason, then as questions open to discussion, and finally as established truths.

To a professional critic (I have been one myself) theatre-going is the curse of Adam. The play is the evil he is paid to endure in the sweat of his brow; and the sooner it is over, the better.

And so, to the end of history, murder shall breed murder, always in the name of right and honor and peace, until the gods are tired of blood and create a race that can understand.

Every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it.

The churches must learn humility as well as teach it.