Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.

It is very good for a man to talk about what he does not understand; as long as he understands that he does not understand it.

We are passing into a social phase in which unless a heroic effort is made for human dignity and freedom, gold will be the sole method of government and therefore the sole standard of manners.

To mix science up with philosophy is only to produce a philosophy that has lost all its ideal value and a science that has lost all its practical value. It is for my private physician to tell me whether this or that food will kill me. It is for my private philosopher to tell me whether I ought to be killed.

If men will not be governed by the Ten Commandments, they shall be governed by the ten thousand commandments

That is the one eternal education: to be sure enough that something is true that you dare to tell it to a child.

It is well sometimes to half understand a poem in the same manner that we half understand the world.