Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.

Do not be proud of the fact that your grandmother was shocked at something which your are accustomed to seeing or hearing without being shocked. ... It may be that your grandmother was an extremely lively and vital animal and that you are a paralytic.

Even the moon is only poetical because there is a man in the moon.

The State did not own men so entirely, even when it could send them to the stake, as it sometimes does now where it can send them to the elementary school.

When some English moralists write about the importance of having character, they appear to mean only the importance of having a dull character.

A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.

Every sane man recognises that unlimited liberty is anarchy, or rather is nonentity. The civic idea of liberty is to give the citizen a province of liberty; a limitation within which a citizen is a king.