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

What we call emancipation is always and of necessity simply the free choice of the soul between one set of limitations and another.

The prophet and the quack are alike admired for a generation, and admired for the wrong reasons.

Progress is Providence without God. That is, it is a theory that everything has always perpetually gone right by accident. It is a sort of atheistic optimism, based on an everlasting coincidence far more miraculous than a miracle.

It's not the world that's got so much worse but the news coverage that's got so much better.

It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.

Truth, of course, must of necessity be stranger than fiction, for we have made fiction to suit ourselves.