The disadvantage of men not knowing the past is that they do not know the present.

I believe your own accent is inimitable, though I shall practice it in my bath.

If prosperity is regarded as the reward of virtue it will be regarded as the symptom of virtue.

But a somewhat more liberal and sympathetic examination of mankind will convince us that the cross is even older than the gibbet, that voluntary suffering was before and independent of compulsory; and in short that in most important matters a man has always been free to ruin himself if he chose.

A detective story generally describes six living men discussing how it is that a man is dead. A modern philosophic story generally describes six dead men discussing how any man can possibly be alive.

The modern world is filled with men who hold dogmas so strongly that they do not even know they are dogmas.

There are two kinds of charlatan: the man who is called a charlatan, and the man who really is one. The first is the quack who cures you; the second is the highly qualified person who doesn't.