There's a lot of difference between listening and hearing.

For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.

The truth is that there are no things for which men will make such herculean efforts as the things of which they know they are unworthy.

The original quality in any man of imagination is imagery.

America is the only country ever founded on a creed.

Most Americans are born drunk, and really require a little wine or beer to sober them. They have a sort of permanent intoxication from within, a sort of invisible champagne. Americans do not need to drink to inspire them to do anything, though they do sometimes, I think, need a little for the deeper and more delicate purpose of teaching them how to do nothing.

I would rather a boy learnt in the roughest school the courage to hit a politician, or gained in the hardest school the learning to refute him - rather than that he should gain in the most enlightened school the cunning to copy him.