One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.

I am more than a devil; I am a man. I can do the one thing which Satan himself cannot do— I can die.

Only men to whom the family is sacred will ever have a standard or a status by which to criticize the State. They alone can appeal to something more holy than the gods of the city.

Men reform a thing by removing the reality from it, and then do not know what to do with the unreality that is left.

Business, especially big business, is now organized like an army. It is, as some would say, a sort of mild militarism without bloodshed; as I say, a militarism without the military virtues.

The old religionist cried out for his god. The new religionist cries out for some god to be his.

The human race is always trying this dodge of making everything entirely easy; but the difficulty which it shifts off one thing it shifts to another.