When giving treats to friends or children, give them what they like, emphatically not what is good for them.

It never occurred to him to be spiritually won over to the enemy. Many moderns, inured to a weak worship of intellect and force, might have wavered in their allegiance under this oppression of a great personality. . . . But this was a kind of modern meanness to which Syme could not sink even in his extreme morbidity. Like any man, he was coward enough to fear great force; but he was not coward enough to admire it.

We do not need a censorship of the press. We have a censorship by the press... It is not we who silence the press. It is the press who silences us.

An almost unnatural vigilance is really required of the citizen because of the horrible rapidity with which human institutions grow old.

Spring never is spring unless it comes too soon.

Facts as facts do not always create a spirit of reality, because reality is a spirit.

In the struggle for existence, it is only on those who hang on for ten minutes after all is hopeless, that hope begins to dawn.