There is only one thing that it requires real courage to say, and that is a truism.

...a figure of speech can often get into a crack too small for a definition.

He may be mad, but there's method in his madness. There nearly always is method in madness. It's what drives men mad, being methodical.

The human race is always trying this dodge of making everything entirely easy; but the difficulty which it shifts off one thing it shifts to another.

Poets do not go mad, but chess players do.

Men in England are ruled, at this minute by the clock, by brutes who refuse them bread, by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern, and therefore wish to enslave.

Most Americans are born drunk, and really require a little wine or beer to sober them.