And all over the world, the old literature, the popular literature, is the same. It consists of very dignified sorrow and very undignified fun. Its sad tales are of broken hearts; its happy tales are of broken heads.

Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.

A great man is not a man so strong that he feels less than other men; he is a man so strong that he feels more.

To be born into this earth is to be born into uncongenial surroundings, hence to be born into a romance.

Liberty has produced scepticism, and scepticism has destroyed liberty. The lovers of liberty thought they were leaving it unlimited, when they were only leaving it undefined. They thought they were only leaving it undefined, when they were really leaving it undefended.

The evolutionists seem to know everything about the missing link except the fact that it is missing.

The simplification of anything is always sensational.