CIVILISATION is not to be judged by the rapidity of communication, but by the value of what is communicated.

The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

All democrats object to men being disqualified by the accident of birth; tradition objects to their being disqualified by the accident of death.

When men have come to the edge of a precipice, it is the lover of life who has the spirit to leap backwards, and only the pessimist who continues to believe in progress.

Realism is simply Romanticism that has lost its reason...that is its reason for existing.

It may not be automatic necessity that makes all daisies alike; it may be that God makes every daisy separately, but has never gotten tired of making them

It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.