The more we are certain what good is, the more we shall see good in everything.

The sceptics, like bees, give their one sting and die.

By a curious confusion, many modern critics have passed from the proposition that a masterpiece may be unpopular to the other proposition that unless it is unpopular it cannot be a masterpiece.

Whenever you remove any fence, always pause long enough to ask why it was put there in the first place.

The professional soldier gains more and more power as the general courage of a community declines.

There are many books which we think we have read when we have not. There are, at least, many that we think we remember when we do not. An original picture was, perhaps, imprinted upon the brain, but it has changed with our own changing minds. We only remember our remembrance.

In matters of truth the fact that you don't want to publish something is, nine times out of ten, a proof that you ought to publish it.