The whole order of things is as outrageous as any miracle which could presume to violate it.

If you attempt an actual argument with a modern paper of opposite politics, you will have no answer except slanging or silence.

Spring never is spring unless it comes too soon.

All men are ordinary men; the extraordinary men are those who know it.

The men of the clique live together because they have the same kind of soul, and their narrowness is a narrowness of spiritual coherence and contentment, like that which exists in hell . . .

There are two kinds of charlatan: the man who is called a charlatan, and the man who really is one. The first is the quack who cures you; the second is the highly qualified person who doesn't.

Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.