In truth, there are only two kinds of people; those who accept dogma and know it, and those who accept dogma and don't know it.

There again," said Syme irritably, "what is there poetical about being in revolt? You might as well say that it is poetical to be sea-sick. Being sick is a revolt. Both being sick and being rebellious may be the wholesome thing on certain desperate occasions; but I'm hanged if I can see why they are poetical...It is things going right," he cried, "that is poetical! Our digestions, for instance, going sacredly and silently right, that is the foundation of all poetry...the most poetical thing in the world is not being sick.

The English are no nearer than they were a hundred years ago to knowing what Jefferson really meant when he said that God had created all men equal.

No animal ever invented anything as bad as drunkenness - or so good as drink.

Faith is always at a disadvantage; it is a perpetually defeated thing which survives all conquerors.

People talk of the pathos and failure of plain women; but it is a more terrible thing that a beautiful woman may succeed in everything but womanhood.

The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.