There is more simplicity in the man who eats caviar on impulse than in the man who eats Grape-Nuts on principle.

I have no right to think for myself. I have no right to think at all.

Marriage is a duel to the death which no man of honour should decline.

If you know what a man's doing, get in front of him; but if you want to guess what he's doing keep behind him.

If you happen to read fairy tales, you will observe that one idea runs from one end of them to the other--the idea that peace and happiness can only exist on some condition. This idea, which is the core of ethics, is the core of the nursery-tales.

Every work of art has one indispensable mark ... the center of it is simple, however much the fulfillment may be complicated.

The theory of free speech, that truth is so much larger and stranger and more many-sided than we know of, that it is very much better at all costs to hear everyone's account of it, is a theory which has been justified on the whole by experiment, but which remains a very daring and even a very surprising theory. It is really one of the great discoveries of the modern time.