Gluttony is a great fault; but we do not necessarily dislike a glutton. We only dislike the glutton when he becomes a gourmet-that is, we only dislike him when he not only wants the best for himself, but knows what is best for other people.

Whatever else we may say of our own age, for good or evil, nobody is likely to call it an Age of Reason.

The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.

I am a bad reporter because everything seems to me worth reporting; and a bad reviewer because every sentence in every book suggests a separate essay.

Hell is God's great compliment to the reality of human freedom and the dignity of human choice.

It [feminism] is mixed up with a muddled idea that women are free when they serve their employers but slaves when they help their husbands.

What affects men sharply about a foreign nation is not so much finding or not finding familiar things; it is rather not finding them in the familiar place.