The men of the clique live together because they have the same kind of soul, and their narrowness is a narrowness of spiritual coherence and contentment, like that which exists in hell . . .

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

A man running after a hat is not half so ridiculous as a man running after a woman.

Modern intelligence won't accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.

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

There is no better test of a man's ultimate chivalry and integrity than how he behaves when he is wrong... A stiff apology is a second insult.

Lord! what a strange world in which a man cannot remain unique even by taking the trouble to go mad!