Each generation is converted by the saint who contradicts it most.

The English are no nearer than they were a hundred years ago to knowing what Jefferson really meant when he said that God had created all men equal.

Wait and see whether the religion of the Servile State is not in every case what I say: the encouragement of small virtues supporting capitalism, the discouragement of the huge virtues that defy it.

The hands that had made the sun and stars were too small to reach the huge heads of the cattle. Upon this paradox, we might almost say upon this jest, all the literature of our faith is founded.

Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.

Do not look at the faces in the illustrated papers. Look at the faces in the street.

There is something to be said for every error; but, whatever may be said for it, the most important thing to be said about it is that it is erroneous.