He is only a very shallow critic who cannot see an eternal rebel in the heart of the Conservative.

Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it.

Hope means hoping when things are hopeless, or it is no virtue at all... As long as matters are really hopeful, hope is mere flattery or platitude; it is only when everything is hopeless that hope begins to be a strength.

If you do not understand a man you cannot crush him. And if you do understand him, very probably you will not.

Buddhism is not a creed, it is a doubt.

The great Gaels of Ireland are the men that God made mad, For all their wars are merry, and all their songs are sad.

One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.