When we look upon lives so human and yet so small, we feel as if we ourselves were enlarged to an embarrassing bigness of stature. We feel the same kind of obligation to these creatures that a deity might feel if he had created something that he could not understand.

To be simple is the best thing in the world.

I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.

The Party System was founded on one national notion of fair play. It was the notion that folly and futility should be fairly divided between both sides.

Truth is sacred; and if you tell the truth too often nobody will believe it.

In dealing with the arrogant asserter of doubt, it is not the right method to tell him to stop doubting. It is rather the right method to tell him to go on doubting, to doubt a little more, to doubt every day newer and wilder things in the universe, until at last, by some strange enlightenment, he may begin to doubt himself.

The human race is always trying this dodge of making everything entirely easy; but the difficulty which it shifts off one thing it shifts to another.