It seems a pity that psychology has destroyed all our knowledge of human nature.

Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.

Fairy tales do not give the child his first idea of bogey. What fairy tales give the child is his first clear idea of the possible defeat of bogey. The baby has known the dragon intimately ever since he had an imagination. What the fairy tale provides for him is a St. George to kill the dragon.

There are two kinds of charlatan: the man who is called a charlatan, and the man who really is one. The first is the quack who cures you; the second is the highly qualified person who doesn't.

Those who leave the tradition of truth do not escape into something which we call Freedom. They only escape into something else, which we call Fashion.

A man is angry at a libel because it is false, but at a satire because it is true.

There are a good many fools who call me a friend, and also a good many friends who call me a fool.