A great man knows he is not God, and the greater he is the better he knows it.

The main point of Christianity was this: that Nature is not our mother: Nature is our sister.

If an editor can only make people angry enough, they will write half his newspaper for him for nothing.

The most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless modern philosopher. Compared to him, burglars and bigamists are essentially moral men.

Every work of art has one indispensable mark ... the center of it is simple, however much the fulfillment may be complicated.

The disadvantage of men not knowing the past is that they do not know the present. History is a hill or high point of vantage, from which alone men see the town in which they live or the age in which they are living.

One can sometimes do good by being the right person in the wrong place.