Aristocracy: government by the badly educated.

If the devil tells you something is too fearful to look at, look at it. If he says something is too terrible to hear, hear it. If you think some truth unbearable, bear it.

Nine times out of ten it is the coarse word that condemns an evil, and the refined word that excuses it.

Romance is the combination of something that is strange with something that is secure.

A small artist is content with art; a great artist is content with nothing except everything.

For religion all men are equal, as all pennies are equal, because the only value of any of them is that they bear the image of the king.

It is still bad taste to be an avowed atheist. But now it is equally bad taste to be an avowed Christian.