It is not bigotry to be certain we are right; but it is bigotry to be unable to imagine how we might possibly have gone wrong.

The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.

If you do not understand a man you cannot crush him. And if you do understand him, very probably you will not.

Literary men are being employed to praise a big business man personally, as men used to praise a king. They not only find political reasons for the commercial schemes that they have done for some time past they also find moral defences for the commercial schemers... I do resent the whole age of patronage being revived under such absurd patrons; and all poets becoming court poets, under kings that have taken no oath.

In all legends men have thought of women as sublime separately but horrible in a herd.

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

You cannot grow a beard in a moment of passion.