There is not really any courage at all in attacking hoary or antiquated things, any more than in offering to fight one's grandmother. The really courageous man is he who defies tyrannies young as the morning and superstitions fresh as the first flowers. The only true free-thinker is he whose intellect is as much free from the future as from the past.

I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.

Time and again, the Faith has to all appearances gone to the dogs. But each time, it was the dog that died.

Men spoke much in my boyhood about restricted or ruined men of genius: and it was common to say that many a man was a Great Might-Have-Been. To me it's a more solid and startling fact that any man in the street is a Great Might-Not-Have-Been.

My brain and this world don't fit each other; and there's an end of it.

The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.

The simplification of anything is always sensational.