The comedy of man survives the tragedy of man.

Were Patrick Henry to return to earth and look around on the vast economic order of the day, he might revise his observation and merely say ‘Give me death’-the alternative being manifestly impossible under modern conditions.

When some English moralists write about the importance of having character, they appear to mean only the importance of having a dull character.

Imagination does not breed insanity. Exactly what does breed insanity is reason. Poets do not go mad, but chess players do.

History is not a toboggan slide, but a road to be reconsidered and even retraced

The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world.

Eugenics asserts that all men must be so stupid that they cannot manage their own affairs; and also so clever that they can manage each other's.