Before the Roman came to Rye or out to severn strode, / The rolling English drunkard made the rolling English road.

He may be mad, but there's method in his madness. There nearly always is method in madness. It's what drives men mad, being methodical.

Atheism is indeed the most daring of all dogmas . . . for it is the assertion of a universal negative.

The prophet and the quack are alike admired for a generation, and admired for the wrong reasons.

The Frenchman works until he can play. The American works until he can’t play; and then thanks the devil, his master, that he is donkey enough to die in harness. But the Englishman, as he has since become, works until he can pretend that he never worked at all.

For the only courage worth calling courage must necessarily mean that the soul passes a breaking point and does not break.

The most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless modern philosopher. Compared to him, burglars and bigamists are essentially moral men.