The man who throws a bomb is an artist, because he prefers a great moment to everything.

[Paradox is] truth standing on its head to gain attention.

We all have a little weakness, which is very natural but rather misleading, for supposing that this epoch must be the end of the world because it will be the end of us. How future generations will get on without us is indeed, when we come to think of it, quite a puzzle. But I suppose they will get on somehow, and may possibly venture to revise our judgments as we have revised earlier judgments.

Doing nothing is sometimes one of the highest of the duties of man.

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.

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

There are a good many fools who call me a friend, and also a good many friends who call me a fool.