We all feel the riddle of the earth without anyone to point it out. The mystery of life is the plainest part of it. The clouds and curtains of darkness, the confounding vapors, these are the daily weather of this world.

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

Reason is always a kind of brute force; those who appeal to the head rather than the heart, however pallid and polite, are necessarily men of violence. We speak of 'touching' a man's heart, but we can do nothing to his head but hit it.

Dipsomaniac and the abstainer are not only both mistaken, but they both make the same mistake. They both regard wine as a drug and not as a drink.

Democracy is like blowing your nose. You may not do it well, but it's something you ought to do yourself.

Classic literature is still something that hangs in the air like a song.

This is the age in which thin and theoretic minorities can cover and conquer unconscious and untheoretic majorities.