The wisest thing in the world is to cry out before you are hurt. It is no good to cry out after you are hurt; especially after you are mortally hurt. People talk about the impatience of the populace; but sound historians know that most tyrannies have been possible because men moved too late. it is often essential to resist a tyranny before it exists.

Youth is always too serious, and just now it is too serious about frivolity.

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

Nothing can ever overcome that one enormous sex (female) superiority that even the male child is born closer to his mother than to his father.

Democracy is reproached with saying that the majority is always right. But progress says that the minority is always right.

A fairly clear line separated advertisement from art. ... The first effect of the triumph of the capitalist (if we allow him to triumph) will be that that line of demarcation will entirely disappear. There will be no art that might not just as well be advertisement.

The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.