Why be something to everybody when you can be everything to somebody?

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

A stiff apology is a second insult... The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt.

I never could see anything wrong in sensationalism; and I am sure our society is suffering more from secrecy than from flamboyant revelations.

And they that rule in England, in stately conclaves met, alas, alas for England they have no graves as yet.

I have myself a poetical enthusiasm for pigs, and the paradise of my fancy is one where pigs have wings. But it is only men, especially wise men, who discuss whether pigs can fly; we have no particular proof that pigs ever discuss it.

[A pacifist is] the last and least excusable on the list of the enemies of society.