Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf; is better than a whole loaf.

Boyhood is a most complex and incomprehensible thing. Even when one has been through it, one does not understand what it was. A man can never quite understand a boy, even when he has been the boy.

My brain and this world don't fit each other; and there's an end of it.

Facts by themselves can often feed the flame of madness, because sanity is a spirit.

I left the fairy tales lying on the floor of the nursery, and I have not found any books so sensible since.

The long words are not the hard words, it is the short words that are hard. There is much more metaphysical subtlety in the word "damn" than in the word "degeneration."

Great truths can only be forgotten and can never be falsified.