The doctrine of human equality reposes on this: that there is no man really clever who has not found that he is stupid.

There are two kinds of paradoxes. They are not so much the good and the bad, nor even the true and the false. Rather they are the fruitful and the barren; the paradoxes which produce life and the paradoxes that merely announce death. Nearly all modern paradoxes merely announce death.

What life and death may be to a turkey is not my business; but the soul of Scrooge and the body of Cratchit are my business.

...a figure of speech can often get into a crack too small for a definition.

One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.

The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.

I am a bad reporter because everything seems to me worth reporting; and a bad reviewer because every sentence in every book suggests a separate essay.