All democrats object to men being disqualified by the accident of birth; tradition objects to their being disqualified by the accident of death.

There are two kinds of people in the world, the conscious dogmatists and the unconscious dogmatists. I have always found myself that the unconscious dogmatists were by far the most dogmatic.

Journalism only tells us what men are doing; it is fiction that tells us what they are thinking, and still more what they are feeling. If a new scientific theory finds the soul of a man in his dreams, at least it ought not to leave out his day-dreams. And all fiction is only a diary of day-dreams instead of days. And this profound preoccupation of men's minds with certain things always eventually has an effect even on the external expression of the age.

Jesus promised his disciples three things—that they would be completely fearless, absurdly happy, and in constant trouble.

If a man does not talk to himself, it is because he is not worth talking to.

Self-denial is the test and definition of self-government.

There is nothing harder to learn than painting and nothing which most people take less trouble about learning.