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

There are two kinds of people in the world, the conscious dogmatists and the unconscious dogmatists. I have always found myself that the unconscious dogmatists were by far the most dogmatic.

I did try to found a little heresy of my own; and when I had put the last touches to it, I discovered that it was orthodoxy.

Adventure is the champagne of life.

Silver is sometimes more valuable than gold, that is, in large quantities.

Research is the search of people who don't know what they want.

Literary men are being employed to praise a big business man personally, as men used to praise a king. They not only find political reasons for the commercial schemes that they have done for some time past they also find moral defences for the commercial schemers... I do resent the whole age of patronage being revived under such absurd patrons; and all poets becoming court poets, under kings that have taken no oath.