They hate kings, they hate priests, they hate soldiers, they hate sailors. They distrust men of science, they denounce the middle classes, they despair of working men, but they adore humanity. Only they always speak of humanity as if it were a curious foreign nation. They are dividing themselves more and more from men to exalt the strange race of mankind. They are ceasing to be human in the effort to be humane.

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.

Every one on the earth should believe that he has something to give to the world which cannot otherwise be given.

The average woman is at the head of something with which she can do as she likes; the average man has to obey orders and do nothing else.

Most Americans are born drunk, and really require a little wine or beer to sober them. They have a sort of permanent intoxication from within, a sort of invisible champagne. Americans do not need to drink to inspire them to do anything, though they do sometimes, I think, need a little for the deeper and more delicate purpose of teaching them how to do nothing.

It's not the world that's got so much worse but the news coverage that's got so much better.

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.