When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it. The two things that nearly all of us have thoroughly and really been through are childhood and youth. And though we would not have them back again on any account, we feel that they are both beautiful, because we have drunk them dry.

Buddhism is not a creed, it is a doubt.

To say that a man is an idealist is merely to say that he is a man.

A citizen can hardly distinguish between a tax and a fine, except that the fine is generally much lighter.

Making the landlord and the tenant the same person has certain advantages, as that the tenant pays no rent, while the landlord does a little work.

We lose our bearings entirely by speaking of the 'lower classes' when we mean humanity minus ourselves.

Men did not love Rome because she was great. She was great because they had loved her.