I have little doubt that when St. George had killed the dragon he was heartily afraid of the princess.

If you spell a word wrong you have some temptation to think it wrong.

There is nothing the matter with Americans except their ideals. The real American is all right; it is the ideal American who is all wrong.

In every serious doctrine of the destiny of men, there is some trace of the doctrine of the equality of men. But the capitalist really depends on some religion of inequality. The capitalist must somehow distinguish himself from human kind; he must be obviously above it or he would be obviously below it.

The most poetical thing in the world is not being sick.

Half a truth is better than no politics.

For Scotland has a double dose of the poison called heredity; the sense of blood in the aristocrat, the sense of doom in the Calvinist.